Facebook Director of Engineering Moves to Same Position at Company's Blockchain Team
July 09 2018 - 7:42AM
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Evan Cheng, Facebook’s Director of Engineering of three years, has
now moved to the same position at the company’s recently established blockchain
team, TechCrunch reported Friday, July 6.
The software engineer has updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect the newly acquired
position, and the change has also been confirmed to TechCrunch by
Facebook.
Prior to this, Cheng was heading Programming Languages and
Runtimes at Facebook for about three years. Before joining the
social media company, Cheng was working on back end engineering for
the tech giant Apple for almost ten years.
Apart from taking the new position, Cheng is reportedly
consulting a range of blockchain-related projects, including Singaporean
blockchain platform Zilliqa and security-focused middleware
provider ChainLink.
Facebook hit the headlines this January, when the company
announced that it will ban initial coin offering (ICO)
and cryptocurrency-related ads on its platform. It has subsequently
relaxed its ban somewhat,
re-allowing cryptocurrency projects to run advertisements.
The company’s head of messaging app David Marcus announced in
May that Facebook has set up a team to explore the
benefits of blockchain applications across
the platform.
Last week, the Taiwanese subsidiary of multinational tech firm
Microsoft announced it began working on a
platform for enterprise blockchain development. In mid-June,
Microsoft also revealed that it started
developing a blockchain-based tracking platform in partnership with
Adents, a provider of product serialization and traceability
solutions.
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