“Aptos is the culmination of our innovations—marking a single, collective step into a future owned by all of us.”

Avery is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aptos Labs. He has spent over a decade building distributed technologies and scaling them to billions of users around the world. Prior to co-founding Aptos Labs, Avery led the crypto platform team at Meta focusing on all aspects of blockchain technology from wallet infrastructure to L1 blockchain development—most notably the Diem blockchain.

Prior to that, he was the overall tech lead for 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 provide the underlying analytics for all of Meta’s products, scale to hundreds of thousands of machines, and enable experiences for billions of consumers.