{"id":"gary-or","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Gary Or","content":"Gary Or is a hacker, product designer, and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Technology Officer of [Crypto.com](https://beta.everipedia.org/wiki/cryptocom).[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-6y4frxkcoev)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-jypa4ndqd9)  \n  \n# Education  \n  \nGary graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 2012 where he bagged a degree in Computer science.  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nGary Or has over 9 years of full stack engineering experience in RoR, Elixir, Go (programming language), and a keen interest in Machine learning and Artificial intelligence. He has worked in previous organizations such as Foris, EventX, Stepcase, and others.  \n  \nHe is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Crypto.com (formerly Monaco). Crypto.com is a universal money app, paired with a physical Visa card where users can send, spend and exchange both crypto and fiat currencies globally at perfect Interbank exchange rates.  \n  \nHe is also the Co-founder and Chief technology officer at Foris, Southeast Asia's universal money app:  \n  \n> Launching in HK and SG in Q1 2017, our app serves as a multi-currency account tied to a physical Visa card, allowing you to send and spend money globally at perfect interbank exchange rates, avoiding all foreign currency exchange fees.  \n  \nGary Or is also the founder of Particle B which was created in December 2020.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-hls7rux5rmp) Particle B is a startup accelerator dedicated to incubating projects built on [blockchains](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain), with a high potential to bring disruptive impact.  \n  \n# Personal Life  \n  \nHe has 7 years of experience in Ruby on Rails development, ranging from Rails 2.3.8 to Rails 5.0.0. Gary takes pleasure in hacking and learning cutting-edge technology:  \n  \n> I'm recently in love with Docker, Golang and Elasticsearch. I enjoy designing user flow of product as well. Time-to-market is always my primary concern.","summary":"Gary Or is a hacker, product designer, and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Crypto.com.","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founders"},{"id":"Developers"},{"id":"PeopleInDeFi"}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"6y4frxkcoev\",\"url\":\"https://www.crunchbase.com/person/gary-or\",\"description\":\" \",\"timestamp\":1658100446443},{\"id\":\"jypa4ndqd9\",\"url\":\"https://theorg.com/org/crypto-com/org-chart/gary-or\",\"description\":\" \",\"timestamp\":1658100453913},{\"id\":\"hls7rux5rmp\",\"url\":\"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/particle-b\",\"description\":\"Particle B company profile.\",\"timestamp\":1662785440625}]"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinglamb/?originalSubdomain=hk"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Up-to-date information on Career."},{"id":"previous_cid","value":"QmSBY2cMxcWDYh7drZcDEG13ixUkUrfAU8UpnVcVpSxRGQ"}],"user":{"id":"0x7da121Af2c3Fc2e65eDCD3573a403C352B4538Aa"},"author":{"id":"0xe3e68B5c18fD6C8B24f849ab7cAd44B9F5754bAb","profile":{"username":null,"avatar":null}},"media":[{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/s6p29klrnjhg9jxeiewhjpg.jpeg","id":"Qmb62pYaUTdhEMPFSpntRAeNauCYjUVwwCvC7L34SpQ6qN","size":"0.080","source":"IPFS_IMG"},{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/download-2020-09-04T115325961jpg.jpeg","id":"QmPaututUmjB9im23ap8fJMq1UBv8hRvgXRZs6NZFa9QxX","size":"0.097","source":"IPFS_IMG"},{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/download-2020-09-04T115307841jpg.jpeg","id":"Qmdwu3jGyZojr7eXNKs82DhGh8kNYmy2PvMdve5hHPmhPV","size":"0.093","source":"IPFS_IMG"},{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/oCw2s3GIjpg.jpeg","id":"QmRgyL1Lz2vRrrYLoyrg1KHJEBwmbu3bwUWC1qztX4Gmkt","size":"0.074","source":"IPFS_IMG"},{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/download-2020-09-04T115406217jpg.jpeg","id":"QmTyxSth3yiwnBGVQh9PZQzT5FtE1b4bUq6H9L6kGqx46V","size":"0.040","source":"IPFS_IMG"},{"name":"https://everipedia-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/GalleryMediaItem/lang_en/gary-or/download-2020-09-04T115331924jpg.jpeg","id":"QmePBqq5sVMrMss2cUkWh7YQd3uZPJMNBXq8gCHQa6bRdq","size":"0.110","source":"IPFS_IMG"}],"ipfs":"QmSBY2cMxcWDYh7drZcDEG13ixUkUrfAU8UpnVcVpSxRGQ","transactionHash":"0xa3ced36e0c601f13840191ae04ed3b80350db29918f4b8c5596caee3ebee3125","created":"2022-07-17T23:32:03.667Z","updated":"2022-08-04T17:53:26.937Z","images":[{"id":"QmcrcUuSfvuVgjcBo8wrhFqjnrQ1EAgzbukMti5xaaWGCe","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}]}