KC Erb
Staff Software Engineer at IonQ
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKC Erb is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade physics training and hands-on engineering to build robust software at IonQ. His background spans academic research and product-focused roles—from PhD work in condensed matter physics to technical product management and senior engineering—giving him a rare ability to translate complex scientific requirements into production systems. He contributes to open-source GUI work (notably enhancements to the Shoes4 framework) and brings full-stack sensibilities to UX, integrations, and backend reliability. Based in College Park, MD, KC excels at bridging research teams and engineering execution, often surfacing pragmatic UI and tooling improvements that quietly improve developer and user workflows.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Brigham Young UniversityThe University of ArizonaThe University of UtahDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at Charles University
Github Skills (2)
ui-components10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
shoes/shoes4
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
Shoes 4 : the next version of Shoes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:KC contributed to the Shoes4 GUI framework, focusing on enhancements to visual elements and the underlying structure. They implemented features such as making edit boxes and lines scrollable, and adding system color integration. The user also updated and improved the download functionality, and introduced and improved various style methods used to style the elements, including the code for arcs, buttons and star.
mac-osxwindowsswtnext-versionlinux
KCErb/lucky-hasura-docker
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
A little tech stack template for putting Lucky and Hasura together via Docker.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
hasuradockerluckydocker-composestack-template
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