Kevin Roche
Maintainer at IBM Research
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Roche is a research engineer and longtime IBM Research Almaden staffer specializing in magnetoelectronics, spintronics, and thin-film deposition who also maintains open-source projects like KubeStellar. He brings deep hands-on expertise in ultra-high-vacuum systems, automated deposition apparatus, data acquisition, and lab automation that have driven decades of experimental productivity and earned multiple IBM technical awards. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador and Qiskit advocate since 2018, he translates complex physics and quantum concepts for diverse audiences while bridging research and engineering practice. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs formal physics training from UC Berkeley with a creative maker’s bent—building bartending robots, light sculptures, and running major fan conventions—which underscores his knack for practical invention and community leadership.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (24)
summarization10
cuelang10
placement10
resource-management10
raspberry10
rollout10
kubernetes9
terraform9
docker9
multi-cluster9
scheduling9
gitops9
python8
openebs8
jsonnet7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KPRoche/quantum-raspberry-tie
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Raspberry Pi running code on the IBM Quantum platform or simulators via Python 3. Results displayed courtesy of the 8x8 LED array on a SenseHat, Updated for Qiskit v1.x
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 128 commits in 4 years 11 months
raspberry-pipythonarrayibm-qprocessors
KPRoche/kubestellar
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 374 pushes, 71 branches in 1 year 9 months
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