Boris Mann
Director at Z-Space Arts and Technology Society
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Mann is a Vancouver-based director, open source builder, and community leader with 13 years of experience building developer-facing products and ecosystems. As co-founder and former CEO of Fission he focused on serverless-style developer DX and explored distributed-web stacks like IPFS, WebAssembly, and zero-knowledge proofs to rethink how apps are hosted and users control data. He contributes hands-on to open source — for example, he implemented the front-end theme (Lit + Eleventy) and persistent light/dark toggle for the Filecoin Improvement Proposals site. Beyond startups, he’s launched and led community and nonprofit initiatives (Open Angel Society, Z-Space, Drupal Association) and advises hardware safety projects like PROXXI. He combines pragmatic full‑stack tinkering with a research-minded interest in tools-for-thought and decentralized systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at University of Victoria
German
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Github Skills (17)
eleventy10
javascript10
tailwind-css10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
theme-development10
liquid10
frontend-development10
css9
html9
parse-platform6
api6
rest6
drupal6
security6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/FIPs
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
The Filecoin Improvement Proposal repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Boris primarily worked on building a website for Filecoin Improvement Proposals (FIPs). Their contributions included developing a front-end theme with a light/dark mode toggle using LIT and Eleventy. They also updated the site's information and overall design. The user integrated a theme toggle feature that persisted user preferences using local storage and adjusted the site description.
filecoinimprovement-proposalblockchainbitcoinimprovement
fission-codes/heroku-ipfs-ghost
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
The Ghost blog system upgraded with Heroku deploys & IPFS support.
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
hostingherokuipfsblog-systemghost-blog
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