David Williams-young
Principal Quantum Software Engineer at Microsoft
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Williams-young is a Principal Quantum Software Engineer with nine years of experience bridging high-performance computing, computational chemistry, and production software—now leading mixed quantum-classical software efforts at Microsoft Quantum from Los Angeles. He built and scaled open-source exascale tools (GauXC, ExchCXX, IntegratorXX, MACIS) and helped make ChronusQ and NWChemEx go-to packages for advanced electronic-structure simulation on DOE leadership-class systems. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs deep numerical methods and GPU-accelerated Krylov algorithms with pragmatic engineering practices to deliver community-adopted libraries. An active open-source contributor, he also makes front-end improvements to popular projects like the Oni editor, showing a rare blend of low-level HPC expertise and attention to user-facing UX.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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36answers
109questions
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
editing10
react9
windows-gui9
neovim8
testing8
csv6
angular6
omnisharp6
angular-cli6
beautifulsoup6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
onivim/oni
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 49 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Oni editor. Their work included fixing bugs related to quick open functionality, specifically handling undefined file arrays and empty Git directories. They addressed an issue by preventing the default behavior of key code 13. Furthermore, the user made changes to the keyboard resolver, addressing issues related to how the space key is mapped. Additionally, the user integrated a feature to display failed tests in the CITest output.
vimneovimneovim-guisjavascriptoni
someguynamedmatt/snif
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 9 months
network-interfacep2pnetworknetworking
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