Episode 139: 🇬🇧 Why Sean Parent Joined Adobe

In this episode, Conor and Bryce close out their conversation with Sean Parent and learn why he left Apple to join Adobe.

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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: 2023-06-29
Date Released: 2023-07-21

• ADSP Episode 137: Sean Parent on Val (vs Rust)!
• ADSP Episode 138: Sean Parent on Val! (Part 2)
• C++ On Sea Conference
• All Sean Parent ADSP Episodes
• Adobe Software Technology Lab
• ADSP Episode 40: Star Trek vs PowerPC (with Sean Parent)
• PostScript
• John Warnock
• Charles (Chuck) Geschke
• Sean Parent photo with John Warnock

Intro Song Info

Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
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