Austin Belknap
Senior Software Engineer at PsiQuantum
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Belknap is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience who blends experimental physics rigor with production-grade software engineering, now working on quantum-classroom systems at PsiQuantum. He has led control software for quantum computing and atomic clock projects, developing Linux, embedded, and device-driver software in Rust, C/C++ and Python while interfacing regularly with physics and EE teams. Prior roles at Google involved systems and Swift compiler work, and he contributes to prominent open-source build tooling—improving Apple platform support in Bazel by streamlining actool/ibtool wrappers and adding swift-stdlib-tool, momc, and mapc support. Comfortable across distributed control systems, RPC/REST services, and large-scale C++ systems programming, he brings a research-trained mindset (PhD in particle physics) to complex engineering problems. Notably, he translates experimental workflows into reliable automation and build infrastructure that helps hardware-focused teams move faster.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Elementary Particle Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Rice University
English
Github Skills (8)
apple110
automation10
apple210
build-system10
automations10
appleii10
bazel10
swift9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/rules_apple
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Bazel rules to build apps for Apple platforms.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:27 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Austin's primary contribution revolves around enhancing and refactoring the build process for Apple platforms within the Bazel build system. They focused on improving the tooling around `actool` and `ibtool` wrappers, consolidating them into a single script, and refining the output filtering for cleaner results. Furthermore, the user added support for `swift-stdlib-tool`, `momc` and `mapc` within the build system. These changes streamline the build process and improve the user experience.
bazel-rulesapplebazel
SwiftGGTeam/google-swift-style-guide-in-chinese
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Google Swift Style Guide 中文版
Contributions:201 commits in 11 months
swift
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