Tony Van Eerd
Principal Software Developer at Strike Technologies, LLC
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorTony Van Eerd is a Principal Software Developer based in Waterloo, Ontario with three decades of hands-on programming experience and over 30 years influencing C++ practice as a member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee. He has led architecture and core engineering for high-profile products—from projection-mapping systems at Christie Digital to multimedia and threading-heavy features at Adobe and platform work at BlackBerry—specializing in C++, concurrency, lock-free design, computer vision, and UX. A frequent, award-winning conference speaker and keynoter, he translates deep technical topics into engaging, actionable guidance and also teaches Value Oriented Programming and concurrency to development teams. Tony’s work blends research-grade inventions and patents with pragmatic product delivery, including principal architecture of Christie Mystique and cross-platform system libraries at Adobe. Notably, his background spans both boutique product innovation at Inscriber and large-scale platform engineering, giving him a rare combination of creative algorithmic insight and production-hardened systems design.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (40)
cpp-library10
reflection10
std10
hey10
iso10
before-after10
iterator10
cpp10
xor9
datetime9
background-image9
interpretation9
ctr9
timezone9
evolution8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tvaneerd/code
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 years 1 month
tvaneerd/cpp17_in_TTs
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Descriptions of C++17 features, presented mostly in "Tony Tables" (hey, the name wasn't my idea)
Contributions:136 commits, 16 PRs, 135 pushes in 2 years 2 months
cppc-plus-plusheyheader-onlycpp17
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