Alex Olivas
Staff Software Engineer- Simulation And Emulation
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Olivas is a Staff Software Engineer and physicist with 14 years of experience building high-performance simulation and distributed systems for scientific and quantum computing platforms. He combines deep expertise in GPU acceleration, CUDA, Rust, and low-level parallel programming with a strong foundation in linear algebra and quantum algorithms (QFT, QPE, QAOA) to optimize hybrid quantum/classical workloads. Alex has led software organizations from hands-on engineering to executive decision-making—most recently shaping simulation and emulation efforts at PsiQuantum after running cloud and control software at ColdQuanta. He is equally comfortable shipping production-grade backends and embedded systems or mentoring engineering teams, and he brings a research mindset proven by petabyte-scale HPC simulation work for IceCube. Based in Boulder, CO, he’s open to senior individual-contributor and leadership roles and is particularly focused on leveraging GPU architectures to accelerate quantum machine learning.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of California, BerkeleyPursuing Master's degree Computer Science, Pursuing Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (38)
boost9
scalable9
cpp8
opencl8
bazel8
build-system8
gpgpu8
hpc7
gpu7
simulation5
icecube5
python5
parallel5
assembly4
computational-physics4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Skylark13/osgboostpython
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:44 commits in 5 months
olivas/intro_to_cpp_concurrency
Aug 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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