In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about the origin story of his career in software engineering!

• Link to Episode 263 on Website
• Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)

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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-10-10
Date Released: 2025-12-05

• Source Code
• TRS80
• Ohio Scientific Challenger
• Exidy Sorcerer

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about generic programming and there is much chaos!

• Link to Episode 262 on Website
• Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)

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• ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
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• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter

About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-10-10
Date Released: 2025-11-28

• Koala bear crying
• abscond Defintion
• Sean's C++ Under the Sea Keynote
• Pacific++ 2018: Sean Parent "Generic Programming"
• From Mathematics to Generic Programming (FM2GP)
• Parrot
• Parrot on GitHub

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from C++ Under the Sea! We interview Bernhard, Koen, talk about C++26 Reflection and more!

• Link to Episode 261 on Website
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About the Guests:

Bernhard is a senior system software engineer at NVIDIA, where he extends, optimizes and maintains the CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL). Previously, he worked as software engineer among physicists at CERN on real-time and embedded software for the Large Hadron Collider, as well as data layout abstractions for heterogeneous architectures, for which he received a PhD in High Performance Computing from the University of Dresden, Germany. Before, he implemented GPU accelerated simulations and 3D visualizations of industrial machining processes. Since 2022, Bernhard is a voting member of WG21 and his interests span geometry, 3D visualizations, optimization, SIMD, GPU computing, refactoring and teaching C++.

Koen is an engineer specializing in high-quality software with a strong mathematical foundation. With a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven, his work bridges applied mathematics and performance-critical software engineering. As Team Lead for HMI Software at NV Michel Van de Wiele, he focuses on developing C++/Qt applications for textile production systems, optimizing performance, usability, and cloud integration. Passionate about elegant, efficient solutions, Koen brings deep expertise in numerical methods, system optimization, and software architecture.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-10-10
Date Released: 2025-11-21

• Thrust Docs
• CUB Library
• C++26 Reflection Proposal
• ADSP Episode 39: How Steve Jobs Saved Sean Parent
• Parrot
• Parrot on GitHub
• Sean's C++ Under the Sea Keynote
• Parrot sum

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