# Gary Or

> Gary Or is a hacker, product designer, and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Crypto.com.

- Canonical URL: https://iq.wiki/wiki/gary-or
- Categories: People in crypto
- Tags: Developer, Founder
- Created: 2022-07-17T23:32:03.667Z
- Last updated: 2022-09-10T04:55:28.505Z
- Source: IQ.wiki — the world's largest blockchain and crypto encyclopedia (https://iq.wiki)

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Gary Or is a hacker, product designer, and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Technology Officer of [Crypto.com](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocom).[\[1\]](#cite-id-6y4frxkcoev)[\[2\]](#cite-id-jypa4ndqd9)  
  
# Education  
  
Gary graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 2012 where he bagged a degree in Computer science.  
  
# Career  
  
Gary 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.  
  
He 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.  
  
He is also the Co-founder and Chief technology officer at Foris, Southeast Asia's universal money app:  
  
> 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.  
  
Gary 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.  
  
# Personal Life  
  
He 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:  
  
> 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.