Jacob Selig
Software Engineering Manager at Rigetti Computing
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Selig is a software engineering manager based in Boulder, Colorado, with four years of formal experience and a decade-plus of practical engineering work spanning backend, frontend, and full-stack systems. He progressed from building high-traffic e-commerce and internal tooling at Fanatics to senior engineering roles and now leads teams at Rigetti Computing, combining Go, TypeScript/React, GraphQL, and cloud-native patterns. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has repeatedly owned data-heavy pipelines and real-time features—from XML→MySQL ingestion to GraphQL-driven internal platforms—and brings hands-on expertise in Protobufs, AWS, and MySQL. Jacob pairs engineering leadership with a developer’s instinct to ship reliable systems and optimize workflows, often improving observability and reuse in teams transitioning from prototypes to production.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (79)
python10
intermediate10
quantum-programming-language10
quil10
quantum-algorithms10
scale10
api10
sdk10
quantum-computing10
cirq10
google10
editing10
simulation10
algorithms10
multiprocessing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rigetti/rigetti-pyo3
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Utilities to support common patterns in pyo3-generated bindings
Contributions:8 reviews, 6 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
pyo3
rigetti/qiskit-rigetti
Feb 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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