Lauren Capelluto
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Capelluto is a software development engineer with 11 years of experience building compilers, control software, and backend systems for quantum computing and cloud platforms. Based in New York, she has driven compiler and pulse engineering at IBM and contributed to open-source projects like Qiskit and pyQuil—implementing algorithms (e.g., Floyd–Warshall in rustworkx), fixing pulse scheduler bugs, and authoring tutorials and tests that improved usability and correctness. At AWS she continues to apply systems-level thinking honed by low-level firmware and assembler work at Rigetti and hands-on validation in hardware simulation. A former scrum master who balances pragmatic Agile practices with technical delivery, she pairs a dual BA in Physics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley (3.9 GPA) with a knack for turning research-grade ideas into production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics B.A. and Computer Science B.A., 3.9, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics B.A. and Computer Science B.A., 3.9 at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (21)
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unit-testing10
algorithms10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
python10
user-manual10
basics10
data-structure10
data-structures10
quantum-computing10
rust10
qiskit10
quil10
documentation10
graph-theory10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Qiskit/qiskit
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:399 reviews, 95 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lauren's contributions focused on improving the Qiskit codebase, specifically related to the pulse module. They addressed a bug in the qobj assembler by resolving sample pulse name conflicts. The user added filtering methods to the schedule to enhance usability. Furthermore, the user addressed various bugs in the pulse module, enhanced existing code, and created tests to ensure code correctness.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-circuit
rigetti/pyquil
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Technical Writer
Backend Developer & Technical WriterContributions:53 commits, 56 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributed to the backend of the pyquil library, focusing on core functionalities like validating and updating ProtoQuil definitions. They implemented methods for validating and checking protoquil programs, including the `validate_protoquil` and `is_protoquil` methods, which involved modifying the `quil.py` file and adding corresponding tests in `test_quil.py`. They also fixed issues related to error messages and ensured proper handling of measure-free programs in the QVM and QPU. Additionally, they were involved in the documentation efforts for the project.
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