Nicholas Gydé
Senior Software Engineer - Quantum at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Gydé is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems across quantum computing, mixed reality, cloud, and simulation domains. At Microsoft he designs runtime systems for real quantum hardware and implemented a performant C++ quantum gate synthesizer, while previously helping deliver photorealistic avatars and reasoning AI prototypes for mixed reality research. He has scaled Amazon services for packaging-reduction at terabytes/day throughput, built ML data pipelines with human-in-the-loop labeling, and shipped production-grade simulations and game engines earlier in his career. His background in physics and computer science informs a pragmatic approach to research-driven engineering and rigorous testing for safety-critical medical software. Comfortable in both research and product teams, he frequently mentors interns and new hires and drives prototypes into executive-backed products. Outside direct product work he has a proven knack for squeezing dramatic performance gains from systems—500% speedups in simulators and orders-of-magnitude reductions in processing time and costs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate studies - degree not completed, Physics, Graduate studies - degree not completed, Physics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (25)
artificial-intelligence10
simulator10
drones10
cross-platform10
autonomous-vehicles10
self-driving-car10
unreal10
ai10
control-systems10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
airsim10
platform-independent10
robotics9
motion-planning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ironclownfish/AirSim
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
Contributions:5 commits, 59 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
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ironclownfish/Chess-
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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