Boris Bolshem
Technical Lead at Superhuman
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Bolshem is a technical lead and seasoned software engineer with over 15 years of experience building high-load distributed services, low-latency multithreaded systems, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure. He has led teams at Grammarly, Amazon, Asana, and now Superhuman, delivering platforms that scaled to hundreds of thousands of RPS while cutting latency 5–7x and lowering costs by an order of magnitude. Comfortable in Java, C/C++, assembly and AWS, he pairs deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic architecture and operational rigor—99.99% SLI availability and sub-minute incident detection at Grammarly attest to that. A hands-on coach and interviewer, Boris has mentored engineers, shaped team practices, and conducted hundreds of hiring interviews to build strong, reliable teams. Based in Vancouver, he brings a rare blend of firmware-to-cloud experience, having started in embedded and real-time systems before moving into large-scale experimentation and metering platforms.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc., Computer Science, B. Sc., Computer Science at University of Haifa
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (15)
amazon9
aws-sdk8
sdk8
aws7
java7
yocto-layer6
rest-client6
yocto6
realsense6
databricks5
dotty5
amazon-kinesis4
scalajs4
scala3
producer3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bolshem/databricks-rest-client
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
IntelRealSense/realsense_sdk_zr300
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 16 pushes in 5 months
realsensesdkrealsense-sdk
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