About the author

I'm most passionate about creating useful, enjoyable user interfaces, especially at the cusp of hardware and software. In my projects, I tend to gravitate to web technologies because of the flexibility of the platform.

I'm currently an engineer on the Chrome developer relations team, doing my part to bring more awesomeness to the modern web platform.

Before Google, I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, where I mostly did HCI research in physical, wearable and social computing.

I became interested in HCI after working as an engineer at Apple for a couple of years. Dipping into Apple's culture, I learned to appreciate the importance of high quality user interfaces. At Apple I wrote large chunks of iWork.com and interned on iWeb.

I joined Apple right after graduating from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada with a Bachelors in Science. I studied mathematics and computer science, focusing on algorithms and computer graphics.

I grew up in Vancouver, Canada and spent my formative childhood years in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Hobbies and stuff

• Backpacking around the world
• Long distance running (5K in under 19m, 10K in under 39m)
• Downhill skiing (CSIA L1)
• Classical piano playing (RCM Grade 10)
• Mediocre guitaring and singing
• Genealogy

Contact

If you want to leave a brief, public note, please tweet at me via @borismus. If your thoughts are long and/or secretive, I can be contacted by email via boris (at this domain).