Dave was part of the C++ standardization effort for 17 years, during which he helped establish and grow the Boost Libraries, and in 2007 founded the Boostcon/C++Now conference. In 2013 he joined Apple to work on the design of the Swift programming language, and went on to help create SwiftUI, a declarative UI framework. He spent two years at Google applying Swift to machine learning problems, and now he is a Principal Scientist at Adobe's Software Technology Lab, where he elevates programming practice through research, education, and tooling.