Eric Scouten
Principal Scientist And Identity Architect, Content Authenticity Initiative
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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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 (183)
cms10
parser10
database-connection10
testing10
test-framework10
hex10
markdown10
data-mapping10
elixir-programming-language10
bdd10
site-generator10
rust10
database10
content-management-system10
sqlite10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
scouten/ericscouten.me
Jun 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
scouten/async-generic
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Write code that can be both async and synchronous without duplicating it
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
async
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