Boris Bolshem
Technical Lead at Superhuman
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
opencv10
linux10
realsense10
computer-vision10
python9
mqtt9
iot9
raspberry-pi9
home-automation8
asyncio8
amazon8
aws-sdk7
internet-of-things7
yocto-layer7
recursion6
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
realsenseai/realsense_sdk_zr300
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Toolkit built on top of the Intel® RealSense™ Cross Platform API (librealsense)
Contributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 16 pushes in 5 months
realsensecomputer-visionlibrealsensecamera-streamlinux
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