Boris Mann
Project Lead at PROXXI Industrial Wearables Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Mann is a Vancouver-based project lead and founder with 14 years of experience building developer communities, open-source projects, and early-stage ventures. He co-founded accelerators and investment funds in Canada, helped launch the Drupal Association and global meetups, and later led protocol and product work at Fission around decentralized identity and encrypted file systems. Skilled across community strategy, developer relations, operations and finance, Boris combines hands-on engineering (e.g., building the Filecoin FIPs site theme) with event orchestration and nonprofit formation. He currently runs B. Mann Consulting, helps lead the AT Community Fund and a community arts nonprofit, and advises hardware and safety-focused startups. Notably, his career threads community-scale growth—from tens of thousands of contributors to 1,000+ conference attendees—into pragmatic product and governance work for decentralised projects.
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 (14)
theme-development10
liquid10
javascript10
eleventy10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
parse-platform6
drupal6
api6
rest6
security6
aggregator6
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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