In particular, his contributions to the language include the delineating of a theory of exceptions, sitting on the C++ Standards Committee, being a founding member of Boost and co-authoring a book on the subject of template metaprogramming.
Abrahams was also the founder and principal member of Boost Consulting (later BoostPro Computing), a company that offered software development and training courses for 12 years (2001–2013) with a heavy bias to use the Boost libraries, and founder of BoostCon, now C++ Now, the annual conference in Aspen, Colorado.
In January 2020, Abrahams joined Google Brain to work on the Swift for TensorFlow project.
[4] In June 2021, Sean Parent announced that Abrahams had joined Adobe Inc. and together they were relaunching the Software Technology Lab.
[6] In 2004, Abrahams co-authored C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond [7] with Aleksey Gurtovoy.