Michał Stęchły
Senior Quantum Application Software Developer
Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Stęchły is a Senior Quantum Application Software Developer with a decade of experience building tooling and scientific software for quantum computing, currently leading development of PsiQuantum’s open-source Bartiq and QREF resource-estimation tools. He combines hands-on engineering with documentation and developer enablement—having contributed notable docs improvements to Rigetti’s widely used pyquil library—and has led cross-team efforts delivering Orquestra Core at Zapata. His background spans algorithm development for optimization and logistics, applied research in indoor positioning systems, and full-stack engineering, giving him a rare blend of theoretical insight and production-grade software craftsmanship. Based in Silesia, Poland, he’s known for empowering others through mentorship and programs like bqResearcher, helping new contributors start open-source quantum research.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
AGH UniversityBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
Polish, English, German, French, łacina
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
quantum-computing10
quil10
python9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rigetti/pyquil
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on improving the documentation of the `pyquil` library, specifically related to quantum programming concepts and examples. Their contributions include rewriting examples to use new functions like `bit_string_probabilities`, unifying naming conventions for variables in the documentation, and updating examples to reflect API changes. The user also fixed typos and added an example of defining a parametric gate.
python-librarypythonquantum-computingquantumquantum-programming
zapata-engineering/orquestra-core
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Core Orquestra meta-package
Contributions:1 release, 67 reviews, 33 commits in 8 months
orquestrameta-packagequantum-computingmidimeta
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