MarkĀ Hodson
Software Engineer at rigetti
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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RockstarMark Hodson is a software engineer based in Adelaide with six years' experience and a strong focus on quantum computing tooling. As a contributor to Rigetti Computing's pyQuil library, he has strengthened core features like PauliSum and memory reference substitution while improving code quality, type hints, and test coverage. He combines hands-on bug fixing with API-level improvements that make quantum programming more robust for developers. Though not a household name, his work on a prominent open-source quantum SDK demonstrates practical expertise bridging research-grade concepts and production-ready code.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
python10
numpy9
quantum-computing9
type-checking8
typehinting8
test-automation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rigetti/pyquil
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (focused on Quantum Computing)
Software Engineer (focused on Quantum Computing)Contributions:13 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the pyQuil library, a Python library for quantum programming. Their work involved addressing code quality issues, fixing bugs, and improving type hints. They focused on improving the core functionality of the PauliSum and memory reference substitution features. They also added and maintained tests to ensure the library's stability and correctness.
python-librarypythonquantum-computingquantumquantum-programming
rigetti/demo-notebooks
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 16 days
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