David Sankel
Principal Scientist, Software Technology Lab at ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 - The C++ Standards Committee
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Sankel is a Principal Scientist and seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building large-scale C++ systems and shaping engineering culture at enterprises like Adobe and Bloomberg. He founded Bloomberg’s C++ Guild, led transformative efforts across Bloomberg’s core microservice and market-data platforms, and now focuses on tooling, libraries, and research to improve industry-wide developer practices. A long-time contributor and editor within the ISO C++ committee, he coauthored the Reflection Technical Specification and helped drive language features earmarked for the 2026 standard. Comfortable from low-level performance engineering to high-level architecture and team building, he’s known for clear communication, mentorship, and turning complex, cross-team initiatives into repeatable processes. An underappreciated thread through his career is his fluency across domains—from HPC and scientific visualization to finance and CAD/CAM—which lets him translate academic language design into production-grade developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS in CS and BA in MA Computer Science and Mathematics, BS in CS and BA in MA Computer Science and Mathematics at University of RochesterClarkson School Computer Science, Clarkson School Computer Science at Clarkson University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (124)
programming-language10
vim10
spacemacs10
cpp10
design-documents10
modular10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs10
raii10
val10
asl10
meta10
toolchain10
matrix9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cplusplus/reflection-ts
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
The draft C++ Reflection Technical Specification
Contributions:5 PRs, 53 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
reflectionspecificationtlacpp
camio/stlab-libraries
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
ASL libraries will be migrated here in the stlab namespace, new libraries will be created here.
Contributions:55 pushes, 61 branches in 1 month
migratednamespaceasl
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