Boris Cherny
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Boris Cherny | |
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| Education | UC San Diego |
| Employer | Anthropic |
| Known for | Creating Claude Code and Claude Cowork |
| Website | https://borischerny.com/ |
Boris Cherny is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer best known as the creator and head of Claude Code.
Personal life
Cherny was born in Ukraine and his family moved to America in 1995. Cherny studied economics at UC San Diego. He then took on a job at Meta, where he worked from 2017 to 2024 on the Instagram team. By his final years at Meta, Cherny held responsibility for code quality across the entire company. In 2024, Cherny was hired to work at Anthropic.
Before working for Anthropic, Cherny was living in rural Japan.
References
- 1 2 "Claude Code creator Borys Chernyi said he was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1995". dev.ua. Retrieved 2026-06-19.
- ↑ Chiang, Ernest (2026-02-24). "The Man Who Built Claude Code Was Changed By It | Ernest Chiang". www.ernestchiang.com. Retrieved 2026-06-19.
- ↑ "Boris Cherny - Anthropic | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Archived from the original on 2026-06-12. Retrieved 2026-06-19.
- ↑ Bloomberg Originals (2026-06-10). Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit. Retrieved 2026-06-28 – via YouTube.
