Julian Wolf
Staff Scientist at Vector Atomic
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJulian Wolf is a Staff Scientist with a decade of hands-on experience designing and building precision optical and ultra-high-vacuum systems for atomic physics and next-generation inertial sensors. He combines experimental optics, laser systems, and bespoke control software—having led the first-ever magneto-optical trap of titanium and managed lab-scale servers and data pipelines serving 20+ users and 80+ TB of data. Adept at troubleshooting legacy hardware and creating custom tooling for version control and offsite backups, he brings a practical systems-engineering mindset to complex, low-SNR measurement problems. Based in Oakland, he balances lab rigor with real-world operational skills honed running farmers’ market stalls, reflecting an unusual blend of meticulous experimental craftsmanship and customer-facing logistics.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), AMO Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), AMO Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at McGill University
c++, c, python, English, common lisp, haskell, matlab
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
julian-wolf/home-bin
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
julian-wolf/dotfiles
Nov 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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