# Boris Cherny

> Boris Cherny is the San Francisco-based engineer who created Claude Code at Anthropic and now leads the product. Before that, he worked on Facebook Groups and Instagram at Meta and wrote O’Reilly’s Programming TypeScript. His career traces a consistent habit: notice a practical annoyance, build a prototype, and see whether other people reach for it.

- **Role:** Head of Claude Code at Anthropic
- **Organizations:** Anthropic, Meta, Facebook Groups, Instagram
- **Education:** Studied economics; did not complete a degree, University of California, San Diego
- **Known for:** Created Claude Code at Anthropic and leads the product., Authored Programming TypeScript, published by O’Reilly Media in 2019., Worked on Facebook Groups projects including chats in groups, a desktop migration and public groups.

## Career timeline

- **2009-2011** — Studied economics at the University of California, San Diego; later said he left to start startups.
- **2010s** — Joined Facebook/Meta and worked on Facebook Groups, including group chats, the Comet desktop migration and public groups.
- **2019** — Published Programming TypeScript with O’Reilly Media.
- **2020s** — Moved to Japan and joined Instagram’s Tokyo office; later worked on Instagram product and infrastructure.
- **2024** — Joined Anthropic and began the terminal experiment that became Claude Code.
- **2025** — Claude Code became publicly available; Cherny was identified as its creator and product leader.
- **2026-05** — Appeared with Bun creator Jarred Sumner in a live coding session at Code w/ Claude in San Francisco.
- **2026-09** — Discussed Claude Code at the Computer History Museum with moderator David C. Brock.

## Achievements

- Created Claude Code at Anthropic and leads the product.
- Authored Programming TypeScript, published by O’Reilly Media in 2019.
- Worked on Facebook Groups projects including chats in groups, a desktop migration and public groups.
- Started a large TypeScript meetup in San Francisco, according to his own interview.
- Maintains open-source TypeScript projects including json-schema-to-typescript and undux.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Spoke at the Computer History Museum in a public conversation about Claude Code and AI.
- **2026-05** — Joined Jarred Sumner for a live coding session at Anthropic’s Code w/ Claude event in San Francisco.
- **2026-05** — Opened the Code w/ Claude London keynote with stories of his early programming projects.

## Links

- Website: https://borischerny.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/bcherny
- GitHub: https://github.com/bcherny

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Last updated: 2026-09-29