Summary
Anton Kovsharov is a creator and lead developer with 12 years of experience building collaborative web applications and tooling, currently leading the Paper Proof project which brings visual theorem proving to canvas and is one of the most popular Lean repos cited by Terence Tao and Kevin Buzzard. A former Google software engineer and Frontend TL, he designed collaborative canvases and incident-replay systems and led framework improvements across large-scale production teams. At Briefly Bio he built an AI-assisted Experiment Builder using TipTap, Yjs CRDT and TypeScript, reflecting a strong focus on real-time collaboration and UX for complex structured data. Technically versatile, he codes in TypeScript, C++, Lean and has deep algorithmic roots—an ACM ICPC World Finals silver medalist with a Master’s from ITMO. An active open-source maintainer and content creator, he shares technical work publicly via GitHub and a popular YouTube channel, blending research-grade rigor with accessible engineering. He also holds a private pilot license (PPL A), hinting at a methodical, systems-oriented mindset beyond software.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ITMO University
English, Russian