Eric Johnston
Senior Quantum Engineer at PsiQuantum
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Johnston is a Senior Quantum Engineer and author of Programming Quantum Computers with 13 years of engineering experience building novel systems on experimental hardware. He blends deep machine-level optimization expertise—from high-speed ray tracing and rack-scale flash devices to real-time film rendering—with hands-on quantum photonics research and product engineering at PsiQuantum. Holder of six patents spanning quantum computation and graphics, he excels at leading small teams to rapidly invent where domain experts are scarce. His work habitually explores system limits and converts surprising failure modes into practical breakthroughs. Off the clock he applies the same physical daring to aerial and mocap stunt performance, a background that informs his tolerance for risk and iterative experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science specialization in robotics and control systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science specialization in robotics and control systems at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringQuantum Engineering Researcher, Quantum Engineering Researcher at University of Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics
Github Skills (16)
openvr10
render10
openxr10
ime9
quantum-computing9
virtual-reality8
keyboard-layout8
keyboard8
tablet8
sdl7
windows4
exponentiation3
wsl23
vnc1
vnc-client1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
machinelevel/sp425-crazy-cow
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Add crude keyboard-lettering function to eink tablet
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year
tabletcrudeimekeyboardkeyboard-layout
machinelevel/QCEngine
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Quantum computation simulator
Contributions:48 commits, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
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