# Avery Ching

> Avery Ching is the Honolulu-born computer engineer and co-founder of Aptos Labs who became its CEO in December 2024. After research work at Los Alamos and Sandia, a search and graph-processing career at Yahoo, and more than a decade building data and crypto infrastructure at Meta, he helped turn technology from the discontinued Diem project into the Aptos blockchain. His current focus is applying that infrastructure to open financial markets and payments.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Aptos Labs
- **Organizations:** Aptos Labs, Meta, Facebook, Yahoo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories
- **From:** Honolulu, United States
- **Education:** BS, Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, PhD, Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Aptos Labs and helped launch its layer-1 blockchain., Led batch data-processing teams at Meta whose systems supported analytics across its products., Led Meta’s crypto platform team during the Diem project.

## Career timeline

- **2007–2011** — Worked at Yahoo on web search and Apache Giraph graph processing.
- **2011** — Joined Facebook data infrastructure after leaders there noticed his work.
- **2010s** — Became overall technical lead for Meta batch processing teams, including Spark, Giraph, Hive/Hadoop and scheduling.
- **2020s** — Led Meta’s crypto platform team associated with the Libra/Diem effort.
- **2021** — Co-founded Aptos Labs with Mo Shaikh.
- **2022** — Aptos Labs announced the project; the Aptos mainnet launched in October.
- **2024-12** — Succeeded Mo Shaikh as Aptos Labs CEO after serving as CTO.
- **2025-06** — Testified before the US House Committee on Agriculture on digital assets.
- **2026-05** — Discussed privacy, AI and institutional adoption in an interview at Consensus.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Aptos Labs and helped launch its layer-1 blockchain.
- Led batch data-processing teams at Meta whose systems supported analytics across its products.
- Led Meta’s crypto platform team during the Diem project.
- Included in CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2024 package.
- Testified before the US House Committee on Agriculture in June 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Discussed AI agents, stablecoins and machine commerce in an interview with Invezz.
- **2026-05** — Spoke with The Block at Consensus about privacy, AI and institutional adoption.
- **2025-06** — Testified before the US House Committee on Agriculture about digital assets.

## Links

- Website: https://users.ece.northwestern.edu/~aching/research_webpage/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyching/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AveryChing

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