Igor Kofman
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Kofman is a seasoned software engineer and builder with 10 years of professional experience and a track record spanning major platforms and startups. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Anthropic, Dropbox (including CTO for Dropbox Paper), YouTube, and Microsoft, and co-founded Hackpad (YC2012) which was acquired by Dropbox. Igor combines product-minded engineering with founding experience, having led Act Now Coalition and served as Head of Product and Engineering at Rewiring America. He is based in San Francisco and known for shipping large-scale web products and collaborative editing systems that blend real-time UX with robust backend architecture. Less obvious: his career shows a pattern of moving between product-centric startups and platform-scale engineering, giving him a rare fluency in both early-stage shipping and enterprise-grade reliability. He brings practical technical leadership that spans front-end UX, backend systems, and cross-functional product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, CS, BS, CS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (61)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
npm10
health10
spread10
electron10
microsoft10
agentic10
thegraph10
typescript10
git-workflow10
editor10
claude10
nodejs10
backend10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spaceshipearth/spaceship
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 month
igorkofman/NeoPixelBus
Aug 2018 - Sep 2025
Adafruit enhanced NeoPixel support library
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 3 months
neopixelsupport-libraryadafruit
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