Summary
Anastasia Marchenkova is a researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience at the intersection of quantum computing and performance engineering, currently working on superconducting qubit processors at Bleximo and backend performance at Pendo. Her background spans hands-on quantum optics research at Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland, early-stage quantum engineering and operations at Rigetti, and practical Go/Python systems work optimizing production services. She won top prizes at IBM’s Qiskit Camps for improving simulator performance and designing a pulse-level quantum programming language, reflecting a rare blend of experimental physics and low-level software design. Anastasia also founded a startup and has contributed to curriculum and technical course design at Coursera, demonstrating product and education instincts alongside technical depth. Based in Berkeley, she publicly demystifies quantum computing via a blog and YouTube channel to recruit more scientists and engineers into the field. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic researcher who moves fluently between lab hardware, compiler-level thinking, and high-performance backend code.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science and Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science and Physics at University of Maryland - College Park
Russian, English