Calum Macrae
Quantum Laser System Specialist at NKT Photonics
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCalum Macrae is a quantum laser system specialist with over 11 years of hands-on photonics and quantum sensing experience, building robust experimental laser systems from concept to fieldable instruments. He combines deep lab skills—frequency and phase-locking, laser amplitude/phase/polarisation stabilisation—and custom analog and microwave circuit design with software tooling in MATLAB, Python and C to deliver integrated experimental platforms. His postdoctoral and industry work produced an ultra-agile portable laser system later used with Toyota for a high-bandwidth atom interferometer, and he’s translated quantum experiments into deployable sensors at Q-CTRL and now at NKT Photonics. Beyond academic publications, he contributes practical tooling in open-source projects (e.g. enhancements to a minimalist macOS status bar), reflecting a pragmatic engineer who balances precision optics, low-noise electronics and reproducible code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biomagnetometry / Quantum Sensing, PhD, Biomagnetometry / Quantum Sensing at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (8)
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objective-c10
macos10
c1110
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configuration-management9
window-manager7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cmacrae/spacebar
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
A minimal status bar for macOS. Ideal for use with tiling window managers like yabai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 69 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Calum primarily contributed to the `spacebar` macOS status bar project, focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes within the codebase. Their work included refactoring the space indicator to use color rather than underlines and adding configuration options. Additionally, they implemented a DND indicator and added support for several configuration options such as color and position.
managersidealstatusnix-darwintiling-window-manager
cmacrae/emacs
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Nightly custom Emacs builds for macOS Nix environments
Contributions:442 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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