Gaelen Marsden
Manager, Processor Software at D-Wave Systems Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGaelen Marsden is a software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and operating mission-critical software at the intersection of physics and computing. As Manager of Processor Software at D-Wave, he leads the team that develops the software infrastructure enabling quantum processor design, testing, and operations. His background includes hands-on development roles and team leadership at D-Wave combined with a PhD in Physics and years of research experience building data-reduction pipelines and parallel map-makers for large astronomical instruments. He brings a rare blend of scientific rigor—experience with Kalman filters, MCMC, and distributed-memory code—and pragmatic software engineering to deliver reproducible, high-throughput systems. Based in Vancouver, he excels at translating complex experimental requirements into reliable production tooling that supports both hardware teams and scientific users.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The University of British ColumbiaHigh School, High School at Brookswood Secondary
English, French
Github Skills (23)
astronomy9
sampler9
wave8
d-wave7
quantum-computing7
api6
ocean5
installer4
python3
science3
hybrid3
astrophysics2
regex1
orbital-mechanics1
wcs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Starlink/starlink
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Starlink Software Collection
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
astronomystarlink
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