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Boris Cherny

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Head of Claude Code, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Cherny created Claude Code as an agentic interface for delegating software-development work from the terminal. Before Anthropic, he was a principal engineer at Meta, working on Instagram server architecture, developer infrastructure, and code quality; he also wrote Programming TypeScript.

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Background

Current role
Head of Claude Code, Member of Technical Staff September 2024-present
Previously
November 2017-August 2024Principal Software Engineer,
Education
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Last editorial review: July 15, 2026