Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect in Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. Sean joined Adobe in 1993, working on Photoshop, and is one of the creators of Photoshop Web, 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 to 1993, Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies enabling Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

This site is a collection of my thoughts on software development and a list of my papers, presentations, and other work.