Melchior Aelmans
Senior Staff Quantum Platform (Networking, Sensing, Security) Solutions Architect
Sweden
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Top SchoolMelchior Aelmans is a Senior Staff Quantum Platform Solutions Architect with 11 years of experience bridging advanced networking, security and emerging quantum technologies to drive real-world productisation. Based at IonQ, he leads the global Solutions Architecture team for Quantum Networking, Sensing and Security, shaping architectures and cross-team roadmaps that turn research into deployable quantum-safe systems. He brings deep service-provider and large-scale datacenter experience from senior roles at Juniper and as a longtime network engineer, combined with practical leadership in standards and community bodies like MANRS, NLNOG and the Internet Society. Equally comfortable in technical design, customer engagement and go-to-market strategy, he has also led commercialisation efforts as Chief Growth Officer at Quantum Bridge and co-hosts The Routing Table podcast. An uncommonly broad practitioner, he pairs hands-on routing and SDN expertise with a focus on quantum-resilient security—helping organisations prepare infrastructure for the post-quantum era.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Pass, Energy Markets & Energy Trading, Pass, Energy Markets & Energy Trading at Merurious Traning & ConsultancyPass, ACE Intelligence course (ACEI), Pass, ACE Intelligence course (ACEI) at CiscoPassed, Lean Six Sigma White Belt, Passed, Lean Six Sigma White Belt at Six SigmaLevel 1, Rope Access, Level 1, Rope Access at IRATAJuniper Networks SDN Fundamentals (JSDNF), Juniper Networks SDN Fundamentals (JSDNF) at Juniper NetworksJuniper Networks Junos Associate (JNCIA-Junos), Juniper Networks Junos Associate (JNCIA-Junos) at JuniperMountainleader / Bergwanderführer, Mountainleader / Bergwanderführer at Tiroler Bergsportführerverband
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (36)
prefix9
specification8
bgp7
tal6
hugo6
points5
filter5
manifest5
rsync4
dfinity4
internet3
sphinx3
exchange3
cryptography3
network-automation3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TCP-AO/Presentations
Oct 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
bgp/draft-ietf-maxprefix
Dec 2018 - May 2021
BGP Maximum Prefix Limits specification
Contributions:49 commits, 4 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 5 months
limitsmaximumspecificationbgpprefix
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