Marquess Valdez
Senior Software Engineer at Rigetti Computing
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarquess Valdez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berkeley with a decade of hands-on experience building and hardening production systems across startups and research-driven companies. After evolving from help-desk and QA roles into full-time software engineering at Shipt, he now contributes to Rigetti Computing, blending practical reliability engineering with experimental computing domains. His background in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC San Diego and a track record of creating practical tooling—like an all-in-one patient intake and reporting system early in his career—reflects a knack for turning messy requirements into efficient, user-focused solutions. Known for "breaking and fixing things" since 2012, he brings a pragmatic curiosity that thrives at the intersection of QA, backend development, and systems-level problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Chabot CollegeUniversity of California San Diego
English
Github Skills (92)
python10
intermediate10
quil10
quantum-algorithms10
tedious10
sdk10
api10
quantum-computing10
binding10
google10
editing10
simulation10
algorithms10
multiprocessing10
language-bindings10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rigetti/qcs-sdk-rust
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Rust SDK for Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services (QCS)
Contributions:5 releases, 283 reviews, 65 commits in 4 months
cloud-servicessdk-rustrustsdkquantum
MarquessV/AllTestsPassed
Nov 2017 - Feb 2022
A blog detailing solutions to various programming challenges around the web.
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
javascript
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