# Evan Cheng

> Evan Cheng is the Taiwanese-born engineer and Mysten Labs co-founder whose career runs from LLVM compiler work at Apple through Meta's Novi research team to the Sui blockchain. A 2012 ACM Software System Award recipient, he started Mysten Labs in 2021 with four former Meta colleagues and has pushed its work toward a broader stack for digital ownership, storage and access control.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Mysten Labs
- **Organizations:** Mysten Labs, Novi Financial, Meta, Apple, Synfora, Equator Technologies
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics, Marietta College, Master's degree in computer science, Syracuse University
- **Known for:** Contributed to LLVM's code generator and received the 2012 ACM Software System Award as part of the LLVM team., Built and led programming language and runtime teams at Facebook., Led research and development at Novi Financial before co-founding Mysten Labs.

## Career timeline

- **1992** — Graduated from Marietta College after moving from Taiwan to the United States.
- **2005** — Joined Apple and worked on LLVM compiler technology and developer tools.
- **2012** — Received the ACM Software System Award as part of the LLVM team.
- **2015** — Joined Facebook to lead programming languages and runtime engineering.
- **2018** — Became director of research and development at Novi Financial, working on Meta's blockchain initiative.
- **2021** — Co-founded Mysten Labs with Sam Blackshear, Adeniyi Abiodun, Kostas Chalkias and George Danezis.
- **2023** — Sui mainnet launched on May 3.
- **2024** — Mysten Labs introduced Walrus, a decentralized storage and data availability protocol.
- **2025** — Mysten Labs launched Seal on testnet and later announced its mainnet launch.

## Achievements

- Contributed to LLVM's code generator and received the 2012 ACM Software System Award as part of the LLVM team.
- Built and led programming language and runtime teams at Facebook.
- Led research and development at Novi Financial before co-founding Mysten Labs.
- Co-founded Mysten Labs, the original contributor to the Sui blockchain.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — In a PANews interview after Consensus Hong Kong, Cheng described Mysten's ambition as a unified stack for digital assets, storage, access control and automation.
- **2025-09** — Mysten Labs published its plan for open infrastructure in an agent-driven web and announced Seal's mainnet launch.
- **2025-04** — Mysten Labs launched Seal decentralized secrets management on testnet.
- **2025-01** — Mysten Labs appointed Kevin Boon president to oversee strategy and operations alongside Cheng.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mystenlabs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chengevan/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/EvanWeb3
- GitHub: https://github.com/ChasingPtr

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Last updated: 2026-09-29