Jose Pinilla
Independent Consultant at Self-employed
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJose Pinilla is an independent consultant and quantum computing specialist with 11 years of experience applying CAD techniques and qubit-mapping algorithms to real-world optimization problems across logistics, healthcare, finance, and ML. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UBC and has a decade-long research background building tools for reconfigurable accelerators, FPGAs, quantum annealers and gate-model devices. Jose blends hands-on development—C, Verilog, Altium—with theoretical work, delivering technical advisory, research, and proofs-of-concept that bridge academic insight and industry needs. His work uniquely spans embedded systems dataloggers to cutting-edge quantum projects, demonstrating an ability to translate low-level hardware constraints into high-level algorithmic gains. Based in Vancouver, he consults on projects that require both deep CAD tool expertise and practical deployment know-how.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering at The University of Western OntarioBachelor of Science (BS), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electronics Engineering at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
notebook10
graph-algorithms10
python10
network-analysis10
windows10
wave10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
recall10
graph-theory10
markdown10
sampler10
notepad10
graph-analysis10
directed-acyclic-graph10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joseppinilla/embera
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
embera offers a collection of minor-embedding resources and algorithms.
Contributions:178 commits, 11 PRs, 173 pushes in 4 years 4 months
emberembeddingminorcadd-wave
joseppinilla/minorminer
May 2019 - Apr 2021
minorminer is a heuristic tool for minor embedding: given a minor and target graph, it tries to find a mapping that embeds the minor into the target.
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years
heuristicmappinggraphembeddingembeds
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