Pablo Halpern
Halpern-Wight, Inc.
President
Boston, MA
Pablo Halpern is a freelance software developer and consultant. He has been programming in C++ since 1989 and has been a member of the C++ Standards Committee since 2007. His main contributions to the C++ Standard has been in the area of parallel and vector programming, and he is largely responsible for taking allocators from a curiosity in C++03 to a usable feature of the Standard Library in C++11 and beyond. He continues to work on language and library features to make allocator use simpler and less error prone. Pablo is the author of The C++ Standard Library from Scratch (Que, 2000), and is a major contributor to Embracing Modern C++ Safely (Pearson, 2021). He has given talks on a number of topics at the CppCon and ACCU conferences. Pablo lives with his partner in Boston, MA. When not working on books and allocators, he enjoys travel, model rocketry, biking, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and watching opera.
