Chung-you Shih
Senior Software Developer at Robinhood
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChung-you Shih is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience who blends deep experimental physics and quantum information expertise with practical software and control-system engineering. After a PhD at the University of Waterloo, he led trapped-ion experiments and developed precision optical addressing, GPU-accelerated algorithms, and JIT waveform compilers before transitioning to production engineering at Robinhood where he builds tokenized stocks, the Robinhood Wallet, and blockchain components. He is fluent across low-level embedded C++ (microcontrollers, SPI), high-performance Python tooling, gRPC/VISA integrations, and machine-learning-enhanced readout systems—skills that let him bridge lab hardware and scalable financial products. He has a track record of mentoring students and shipping complex instruments (including a custom UV microscope objective and mirrored AOD addressing), showing hands-on hardware proficiency uncommon in software engineers. Based in the United States, he combines rigorous academic research (Google Scholar, ORCID) with product-focused development, making him effective at turning cutting-edge physics tools into robust, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Overall GPA: 3.87/4.00, Professional GPA 3.92/4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Overall GPA: 3.87/4.00, Professional GPA 3.92/4.00 at National Taiwan UniversityMathematics & Science talented class, Mathematics & Science talented class at National Chunghua Senior High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics (Quantum Information), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics (Quantum Information) at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (56)
inverse10
arxiv10
quantum-mechanics9
imaging9
physics9
least-squares9
chemistry9
quantum-computing8
curve8
python8
latex8
latexmk8
curve-fitting8
browser8
image-processing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ldes89150/pylaserkbd
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 1 month
QITI/Halftones
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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