Nathan Shammah
Co-Founder at Unitary Foundation
Italy
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Top SchoolNathan Shammah is a co-founder and seasoned quantum software leader with eight years of experience bridging academic research and product-focused engineering. Trained with a PhD in Physics, he built numerical methods for simulating large open quantum systems at RIKEN and contributed as a lead developer to QuTiP, authoring notebooks and documentation used by the quantum community. As CTO and later Managing Director at the Unitary Foundation he led technical teams and now serves on its board and as a fellow, while co-founding startups including Metis and Quantika. He is an active open-source contributor—helping shape Mitiq’s and QuTiP’s documentation and PIQS examples—demonstrating a knack for turning complex theory into usable tools. Based in Italy, Nathan also backs early-stage ventures as an angel investor, combining technical depth with strategic insight. A less obvious strength is his persistent focus on clear technical communication, evident across extensive documentation and educational notebooks that lower the barrier to entry for quantum software users.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Woodland High SchoolImperial College LondonMaster in Physics - Erasmus year Nanoscience Centre and Niels Bohr Institute, Master in Physics - Erasmus year Nanoscience Centre and Niels Bohr Institute at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenUniversity of MilanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of SouthamptonLiceo Classico "C. Beccaria"
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Github Skills (19)
markdown10
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quantum-mechanics10
restructuredtext10
python10
sphinx10
technical-writing10
rs10
ipython10
markdown-it10
qutip10
jupyter-notebook10
modeling10
documentation10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
unitaryfoundation/mitiq
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
A toolkit for applying error mitigation techniques on most quantum computers.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 releases, 283 reviews, 186 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathan's contributions focused on improving the project's documentation. The commits primarily involved creating and modifying documentation files, including the main README, contributing guidelines, and the change log. These updates involved reformatting and clarifying existing content to improve readability, adding new content on research, and incorporating links to external resources. The user's work also included restructuring documentation for the addition of new features and improving the formatting of examples.
computersprototypequantum-programmingqiskitintermediate
qutip/qutip-notebooks
Mar 2018 - May 2020
A collection of IPython notebooks using QuTiP: examples, tutorials, development test, etc.
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:3 reviews, 34 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed significantly to the development of new notebooks for the Permutational Invariant Quantum Solver (PIQS), a tool within QuTiP for simulating open quantum systems. Their work involved implementing and documenting the use of PIQS, including examples for boundary time crystals and steady-state superradiance, showcasing the solver's capabilities. They also made updates and tidied existing notebooks, enhancing consistency and clarity in the documentation and examples.
ipythonqutip
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