Avery Ching is the chief executive officer, chief technology officer, and co-founder of Aptos Labs, the team that helped to launch the Aptos layer-1 blockchain. Ching spent over a decade leading teams at Meta, most recently as the tech lead of the crypto platform, which covered projects across general blockchain development and ecosystems, wallet infrastructure, strategy, and, most notably, the Diem blockchain.

Prior to that, Ching was the overall tech lead of all of Meta’s batch processing teams, including Spark, graph processing (Apache Giraph), Facebook Hive/Hadoop (Corona), distributed scheduling, and the unified programming model for pipelines. These technologies power analytics for all of Meta’s products and scale to hundreds of thousands of machines.

Born and raised in Honolulu, HI, Ching studied computer engineering at Northwestern University, where he also received his PhD in computer engineering, specializing in the areas of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems.