Davide Barranca
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer
Crevalcore, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolDavide Barranca is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Adobe with over 12 years of experience building and documenting extensibility for Creative Cloud—specializing in Photoshop plugins, scripts (ExtendScript, CEP, UXP) and APIs. He’s the author of six books on Adobe extensibility and has a rare cross-disciplinary background as a professional Photoshop retoucher and consultant for contemporary art publishers and photographers since 2000. At Adobe he has moved between engineering and developer experience roles, helping port the Photoshop scripting DOM to UXP and producing tutorials and docs that bridge core teams and third‑party plugin developers. His work combines hands‑on TypeScript development with clear technical storytelling, making complex API changes accessible to the ecosystem. Based in Emilia‑Romagna, Italy, he also brings deep practical expertise in color management, pre‑press and fine‑art digital printing—skills that inform his pragmatic approach to tooling and developer guidance.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
None, Industrial Chemistry, None, Industrial Chemistry at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
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Github Skills (128)
cocoa10
adobe10
markdown10
javascript10
panels10
html10
creative-cloud10
xcode10
photoshop10
objective-c10
code-snippets9
ui-components9
extendscript9
accessibility9
webpack9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
undavide/ps-scripting
Apr 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
undavide/PS-Installer
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Photoshop Add-ons installer script
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
photoshop
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