David Sankel
New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid 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
Github Skills (90)
programming-language10
vim10
spacemacs10
cpp10
design-documents10
emacs10
compiler10
llvm10
raii10
asl10
toolchain10
matrix9
archlinuxarm9
swift9
extendscript9
Programming languages (18)
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
cppreflection
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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