Roy Li, CEO of Ruff Chain a serial entrepreneur served as North America Technical Director during his time at Nokia. At that period, he oversaw the development of the Symbian OS and OVI platform. Roy Li was at the Fudan University Shanghai, China as a master’s supervisor and also a visiting lecturer. He has well over 200,000 fans at a Q&A community in China called Zhihu and others spread far and wide across the world.

Roy Li is also a member of Canadian Youth Team of Contract Bridge. Fun fact: Roy Li work efficiency is supported by snacks. I read somewhere that they have cabinets full of snacks that will be able to last a whole year for all the employees of Ruff Chain. The Ruff Chain project has been an obsession for Roy Li since he started it.

Roy Li started the ruff OS, the OS for IoT. He found the existing embedded development of IoT to be difficult to use, understand and so unfriendly. So he came up with the idea of creating a general operating system for IoT just like we have the Android, Java, and IOS. Ruff OS won the championship of the venture competition of the 2016 Tech Crunch and the journey to fame began. After this Roy Li started the Ruff Chain project.

Roy Li has been to several speeches, conferences, and interviews. Spreading the word about the Ruff Chain project and giving his view about internet of things, operating systems, the blockchain, data management and I.T security.

At the Blockchain Partner Summit 2018 in Seoul Roy Li gave a speech on the Future Technology Enhancement of Blockchain. At this event, Roy Li during a round table discussion gave his view on blockchain and said that it was still in its early stages and has a long way to go and there are many applications in which the blockchain technology will be used for. On his main speech, he spoke about the Future Technology Enhancement of Blockchain he categorized it into smart contract scalability, optimization, underlying abstraction and developer friendliness. The link to the full video is provided below.