The Next Digital Frontier: Embracing Web3 with Circle's CTO Li Fan

Li Fan is CTO at Circle, a global fin-tech firm enabling business to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains (Circle is the principle operator of USD Coin). Prior to Circle, Li was CTO at Lime, an innovative technology company that connects and empowers urban living through mobility.

Before Lime, Li was SVP of engineering at Pinterest leading all 600+ engineers to execute technology strategy and deliver company priorities. Li was a Senior Director of Engineering in Google, accountable for Google’s popular image search and was Vice President of Engineering at Baidu.

Sen is a technical leader based in the Bay Area with expansive experience in engineering leadership across crypto exchange, self-driving, and SaaS. He is VP of Engineering at OKX, a crypto exchange. He previously held engineering leadership positions at Replica (a Series B data SaaS company funded by Founders Fund), Uber, Lyft, and Twitter. He has founded two companies, served as CTO, and had successful exits. He holds 5 US and international software patents. He currently is an active angel investor and technical adviser to several companies in the domains of blockchain/DAO, AI/ML, Self-driving, Social, and Fintech.