Aditya Giridharan
Backend Engineer at Abnormal AI
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAditya Giridharan is a backend engineer with 8 years of experience, currently building systems at Abnormal AI in New York while holding an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego. He blends pragmatic software engineering (C/C++, JavaScript, Python, Java) with deep theoretical interests—cryptography, automata, game theory—and is actively exploring quantum computing and near-term applications. As a former founding engineer and long-tenured contributor at companies like Citrix and IBM, he has shipped performance-sensitive features for large products and helped nurture developer communities around Qiskit. He has taught algorithms and theory courses as a graduate TA, demonstrating an ability to translate rigorous theory into teachable, usable artifacts. His open-source contributions include technical writing and fixes to the well-known Qiskit Textbook, improving explanations and quantum algorithm notebooks such as QFT and Simon’s algorithm. Colleagues describe him as a curious systems thinker who moves comfortably between low-level implementation details and abstract computational concepts.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, 9.56, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, 9.56 at R. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (6)
quantum-computing10
quantum-algorithms10
documentation10
latex7
python4
qiskit4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
qiskit-community/qiskit-textbook
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
[ARCHIVED] A university quantum algorithms/computation course supplement based on Qiskit
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 25 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aditya primarily focused on fixing typos and addressing minor inconsistencies within the documentation. Their commits demonstrate a clear effort to improve the clarity and accuracy of the textbook content, particularly in the chapters on quantum algorithms and quantum computing concepts. They also updated the QFT and Simon's algorithm notebooks. The changes involved correcting mathematical notations, fixing errors in explanations, and ensuring the code examples were correct.
computationqiskit-textbookquantum-mechanicsquantum-computingsupplement
aditya-giri/MicroQiskit
Sep 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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