Boris Cherny
Creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic; author of Programming TypeScript.
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- Boris Cherny is a programmer who created Claude Code and leads it at Anthropic.
- Born in Ukraine, he moved to the United States with his family in 1995 and studied economics at UC San Diego.
- He worked at Meta from 2017 to 2024 on the Instagram team, in his last years responsible for code quality across the company.
- He joined Anthropic in 2024 and wrote O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript.
Key facts
- Current role
- Creator and head of Claude Code, Anthropic1
- Background
- Born in Ukraine; his family moved to the United States in 19951
- Education
- Economics, UC San Diego1
- Meta
- From 2017 to 2024, on the Instagram team; by the end responsible for code quality across the company1
- Book
- Programming TypeScript (O'Reilly)2
Roles
Part of
- AnthropicOrganization
created and leads Claude Code; joined in 2024 · since 2024 source on Anthropic
Before
Part of until 2024
Meta (Instagram team; by the end responsible for code quality across the company) source on Meta
Links
Sources
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