Henrique Silvério
Senior Quantum Software Engineer at Pasqal
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolHenrique Silvério is a Senior Quantum Software Engineer with eight years of experience building quantum control and software stacks for neutral-atom devices at Pasqal, where he now helps develop the quantum OS. Trained in Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico with graduate work at TUM focusing on quantum computation, he bridges physics and production-grade software engineering. Henrique contributes to prominent open-source projects like QuTiP and Cirq, having implemented testing infrastructure for QuTiP’s qip module and extended Cirq with 2D/3D qubit classes and a generalized PasqalDevice to support real and virtual hardware. He combines low-level device modeling and noise-aware gate sets with practical QA and test automation, a blend that makes his work both research-forward and deployment-ready. Based in Paris, he’s known for translating experimental hardware constraints into robust, future-proof software abstractions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at Technical University of MunichMaster of Science - MS Engineering Physics, Master of Science - MS Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
circuit10
unit-testing10
quantum-computing10
quantum-algorithms10
api10
cirq10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
qutip9
sdk9
simulations9
simulation9
algorithms9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quantumlib/Cirq
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
A Python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Henrique primarily contributed to the development of new qubit classes and functionalities within the cirq framework, specifically focusing on supporting Pasqal devices. Their work involved implementing ThreeDQubit and TwoDQubit classes, which allow for flexible qubit placement in 3D and 2D space. The user also generalized the PasqalDevice class to provide a more flexible and future-proof foundation for supporting various Pasqal devices, including adding virtual device capabilities and updating the accepted gate set and noise model. These changes involved significant modifications to existing qubit representations and device handling logic, impacting the core functionalities of the cirq framework.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-algorithms
qutip/qutip
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
QuTiP: Quantum Toolbox in Python
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 10 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Henrique's contributions primarily focus on implementing and maintaining unit tests for the `qutip.qip` module within the QuTiP library. Their work includes creating test files, writing test cases to verify the functionality of the module, and setting up fixtures and monkeypatches to simulate different import scenarios. The user also addressed review suggestions related to the testing and provided a stub for the `qutip_qip` package during tests.
quantum-opticsquantum-toolboxphysicspythonquantum-mechanics
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