Kyle Quinlan
Senior Software Engineer at Saga Education
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Quinlan is a senior full-stack software engineer and former physicist who blends rigorous scientific training with product-minded engineering to build reliable, scalable systems. With ~5 years of experience across academia and industry, he has led teams and owned core product areas at Saga Education, delivering a GenAI-enabled tutoring analytics pipeline and a real-time attendance system used by thousands daily. His research background drove high-performance, close-to-the-metal data acquisition and ML-driven Bayesian feedback algorithms that achieved measurable gains in experimental physics. Comfortable across C++, Python, and modern AWS architectures, he’s now migrating monolithic systems to cloud-native, event-driven microservices. An active debate coach and analytically inclined competitor, he applies competitive modeling and statistical insight to both product metrics and coaching strategy. Colleagues describe him as a puzzle-driven engineer who seeks the hardest problems and turns them into operational outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Physics, Master of Science - MS Physics at University of Colorado BoulderFairview High School
Github Skills (4)
mercury4
radiation4
temperature4
climate-science3
Github contributions (5)
jadexter/ebhlight
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Two-temperature General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
relativisticradiationmercurymagnetohydrodynamicstemperature
koquinlan/InstrumentControl
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:37 pushes in 6 months
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