Li Chen
Software Engineer at Amazon
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLi Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience, currently contributing to quantum computing infrastructure at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing in Los Angeles. He brings strong back-end expertise demonstrated by work on the widely used OpenQASM project, where he refined grammar, fixed tests, and delivered a Python AST reference implementation. Comfortable navigating both language design and practical engineering, he focuses on making quantum programming tools more robust and maintainable. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic problem-solver who blends attention to correctness with a taste for clean, well-reviewed code.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
grammar10
quantum-computing10
grammars10
python10
antlr10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openqasm/openqasm
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Quantum assembly language for extended quantum circuits
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 42 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Li primarily focused on refining the OpenQASM grammar, addressing both syntax and functionality. They removed unnecessary elements and made the right-hand side of assignments required. Furthermore, they fixed broken test cases and incorporated suggestions from code review to improve the codebase. They also made changes to the grammar's structure by altering list representations, and provided a reference implementation of the OpenQASM AST in Python.
assemblyquantum-computingquantum-informationopenqasm
awslabs/kinesis-agent-windows
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
An extensible Windows agent that ingests logs and metrics to AWS services such as Kinesis Stream, Kinesis Firehose, CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch.
Contributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
aws-servicescloudwatchkinesis-streamwindows
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