Eric Scouten
Principal Scientist And Identity Architect, Content Authenticity Initiative
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEric Scouten is a Principal Scientist and Identity Architect with decades of hands-on engineering and product experience, currently leading Adobe's efforts to turn C2PA/CAWG standards into open-source tooling and identity bindings for digital content. He began shipping commercial software as a teenager and has repeatedly rebuilt core tooling—from a font renderer for Apple II constraints to Metrowerks’ Constructor and ImageReady—demonstrating deep cross-language and cross-platform expertise. At Adobe he’s driven Lightroom, Revel, enterprise PDF services, and now content authenticity, blending system-level engineering (C++, Objective-C, Lua, SQL/NoSQL) with standards leadership as co-chair of the Creator Assertions Working Group. Known for tackling alternative architectures and mentoring distributed teams, he pairs pragmatic product sensibility with a rare institutional memory of platform transitions that still informs resilient design choices today.
15 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Psychology, B.A. Psychology at University of MinnesotaM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (200)
cms10
testing10
test-framework10
markdown10
browser10
data-mapping10
bdd10
site-generator10
ecto10
rust10
database10
content-management-system10
translation10
elixir10
static-site-generator10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
scouten/asciidoc-parser
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
AsciiDoc parser
Contributions:3 releases, 341 PRs, 467 pushes in 1 year 3 months
scouten-archive/pghr
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Q&D demo of PG perf issues
Contributions:34 commits, 40 PRs, 29 pushes in 12 days
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