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

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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

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Episode 263: 🇳🇱 The Sean Parent Origin Story