Myles Borins
Product Lead, Developer Platform
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMyles Borins is a senior product leader with 14 years of experience building developer platforms and open-source ecosystems, currently leading Snowflake’s Developer Platform where his team’s tools support thousands of customers and over $2.5B ARR. He blends deep engineering chops—contributions to ChakraCore, Node.js forks, npm tooling and embedded Monome firmware—with product leadership at GitHub (Codespaces, npm, Copilot PRs) and Google, making him fluent across driver ecosystems, APIs, CLIs and release/CI workflows. A long-time standards and community steward (TC39 delegate, OpenJS board roles), he pairs cross-org strategy with hands-on work in build/release automation and test infrastructure. Trained in music and interactive media at Stanford and OCAD, he brings a creative, systems-oriented approach to developer experience and tooling that surfaces in both low-level engine optimizations and high-level platform strategy.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Integrated Media, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Integrated Media at OCAD UniversityMaster's degree (MA/MST) Music Science and Technology, Master's degree (MA/MST) Music Science and Technology at Stanford University
javascript, English
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Github Skills (51)
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javascript10
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hardware-interface10
testing10
bash10
nextjs10
c1110
chakra10
codegen10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/citgm
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Canary in the Gold Mine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 234 commits, 483 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Myles primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and error handling of the `citgm` project. They fixed issues related to npm install error handling, implemented new test cases, and improved coverage. Furthermore, they refactored the logging output and introduced optimizations for output buffering. These changes show that the user was involved in ensuring the quality and reliability of the project.
javascriptgoldcanarynpm-modulenodejs
ayojs/ayo
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
A fork of Node.js. Humans before technology.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Myles primarily contributed to the core Node.js codebase. Their work involved modifying and updating internal module versions, including critical changes to zlib and npm dependencies. These updates included fixing compatibility issues with newer versions of Node.js and incorporating necessary dependency upgrades to ensure the project's overall health and functionality. Additionally, the user addressed documentation issues, adding missing license information and removing deprecated functionalities.
node-jsnodejsv8-javascript-engine
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