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Avery Ching is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Avery studied at Northwestern University where he also received a PhD in Computer Engineering specializing in the area of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems.
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