Bio

Dave Abrahams is a founding member of boost.org and an active participant in the ANSI/ISO C++ standardization committee. He has been a software professional since 1987, his a broad range of experience in industry including shrink-wrap software development, embedded systems design and natural language processing. He has authored eight Boost libraries and has made contributions to numerous others.

Dave made his mark on C++ standardization by developing a conceptual framework for understanding exception-safety and applying it to the C++ standard library. Dave created the first exception-safe standard library implementation and, with Greg Colvin, drafted the proposals that eventually became the standard library's exception-safety guarantees.

In 2001 he founded Boost Consulting to deliver on the promise of advanced, open-source C++ libraries, and has been happily developing C++ libraries, teaching about C++ and Boost, and nurturing the Boost community ever since.