Congratulations to Avery Ching for this major move becoming Aptos Labs CEO !
This is an excerpt from an article I wrote on X entitled “Exploring Aptos: The Founding Team Behind Aptos”
Dr. Avery Ching (Avery Ching - Google Scholar), the distinguished CTO of the Aptos Network , has over a decade of experience in software engineering management, having spent over ten years as a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook (Meta).
During his tenure at Facebook from 2011 to 2021, Dr. Ching was instrumental behind the development of the platform’s Graph Search (Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map | PCWorld). Seeing a need for robust data-processing, he worked on the adoption of Apache Giraph. He had co-founded this work on Apache Giraph during his time at Yahoo. This work allowed Avery to delve into the vast network of data from Facebook, analyzing an impressive trillion edges, or connections, in under four minutes. Under Dr. Ching’s watch, Giraph was not only integrated but was also optimized to be four times faster than Facebook’s previous data system, Apache Hive. This was achieved using 200 commodity servers, setting new benchmarks (Scaling Apache Giraph to a trillion edges - Engineering at Meta) in the tech world back around 2013. Avery continues expanding on this work ten years later with the Apache Software Foundation (Dashboard - Apache Software Foundation).
His deep understanding of software engineering, combined with a vision for scalable solutions, positions Avery Ching and the team at Aptos as one of the blockchain networks that will help more users to experiment and use Web3 technologies.
The following are some of the video interview appearances that Avery has done in the recent past before and after the introduction of the Aptos Network on October 2022.
Avery Ching | Co-Founder & CTO of Aptos | Upgradeability & Scaling | Logan Jastremski Podcast #18
Sep 14, 2022
Avery Ching Keynote at Shanghai Blockchain Week | Aptos Overview: Safe, Scalable, and Upgradeable
Dec 16, 2022
Aptos: 2023 Outlook | Avery Ching Keynote at Interop Summit 2023
Mar 8, 2023
Discovering Aptos Blockchain: An Interview with Co-Founder Avery Ching
May 10, 2023
Whiteboard Series with NEAR | Ep: 54 Aptos Labs w/Illia Polosukhin, Avery Ching, Sasha Spiegelman
Apr 16, 2024
Building verifiably high-throughput blockchain with Aptos CTO Avery Ching | EP #147
Oct 10, 2024
More on the rest of the Aptos Founding Team in this X article:
