
Craig CitroResearcher
Anthropic
Research Engineer
via Anthropic
Engineer

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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Last editorial review: July 15, 2026