Adriaan Rol
Executive Director - Co-Founder at Orange Quantum Systems
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAdriaan Rol is a quantum software and hardware leader, currently Executive Director and Co-Founder of Orange Quantum Systems, where he leads R&D to resolve the characterization bottleneck of quantum devices. He earned a PhD in Applied Physics (cum laude, top 5%) from Delft, where he developed calibration protocols, a two-qubit gate, and contributed to Quantum Infinity, a transmon-based full-stack quantum computer. His work across the stack earned the Zurich Instruments Pioneer Award and award-winning papers, reflecting a strong blend of experimental physics and system-level engineering. Previously he co-founded ventures and led organizations including QuTech blog Bits of Quantum and served on the executive board of De Kleine Consultant, highlighting leadership and science communication. On the software side, his GitHub contributions to microsoft/Qcodes as Back-end Developer & Instrumentation Engineer focused on developing instrument drivers for Rohde & Schwarz and Agilent, adding validators and improving data acquisition workflows. Based in Delft, Netherlands, Adriaan combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive to translate quantum research into scalable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
TU DelftMaster of Science, Applied Physics, Master of Science, Applied Physics at Delft University of TechnologyGymnasium, Gymnasium at Vossius Gymnasium
English, Dutch, Spanish, German, French
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Github Skills (15)
develop10
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driver10
qcc10
python10
testing9
git6
hdf6
hex6
holoviews6
homebrew6
epydoc6
github6
bokeh6
h5py6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Qcodes
Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
Modular data acquisition framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Instrumentation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Instrumentation EngineerContributions:1 review, 163 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Adriaan's contributions primarily involve developing and testing instrument drivers for scientific instruments, including a Rohde & Schwarz signal generator and an Agilent signal source. They added and modified instrument drivers within the QCoDeS framework, suggesting a focus on integrating and controlling hardware for data acquisition. The user's work also includes adding functionality and validators, indicating a focus on usability, instrument control, and integration with data acquisition workflows. The user also contributes to the software with driver modifications and other bug fixes, highlighting familiarity with the QCoDeS code base.
physicsdata-acquisitionstream-processingdata-processingframework
DiCarloLab-Delft/Qcodes
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 10 months
data-acquisitionpythondataanalysis-frameworkmodular
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