Jake Zaia
Quantum Software Developer II at Xanadu
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Zaia is a Quantum Software Developer II with nine years of engineering experience, currently building quantum-classical tools at Xanadu after advanced studies at Carnegie Mellon and RIT. He combines practical firmware and systems work—from FreeRTOS and SDR integrations to secure bootloaders—with software stacks in Python, Go, C++, C#, Flask, and React to bridge hardware and quantum software. Past roles at MITRE and the Software Engineering Institute show a steady focus on quantum error correction, prototype classical interfaces for quantum systems, and AI-enabled cybersecurity tooling. Jake also tutors and mentors across time zones, reflecting strong communication skills and a talent for translating complex research into usable prototypes. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a researcher’s rigor and an implementer’s pragmatism, often tackling the messy integration problems that make quantum projects real.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MSCS Computer Science, Master of Science - MSCS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Stuyvesant High School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (71)
simulator10
distributed-computing10
optimization10
qml10
quantum-computing10
parallel9
python9
padding9
qiskit9
gpu9
deep-learning9
openmp9
quantum-chemistry9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jzaia18/Gumshoe-Website
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
jzaia18/Major-Projects
Dec 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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