Prasahnt Sivarajah
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrasahnt Sivarajah is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with eight years of hands-on experience building RTL, firmware, compilers, and runtimes for quantum control systems across startups and hyperscalers. His background spans neutral atom and superconducting qubit control at Atom Computing and Rigetti, to distributed real-time quantum control and error-correction work as a Sr. Research Engineer at AWS. He holds a PhD in Chemical Physics from MIT and a BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo, bringing deep physical-science rigor to production engineering. An active contributor to the openqasm project, he extended OpenPulse grammar and waveform semantics—work that bridges low-level pulse control with higher-level quantum program representation. Known for turning research-grade concepts into deployable control stacks, he combines experimental insight with systems engineering to accelerate practical quantum computing.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Physics, Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (2)
quantum-computing10
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openqasm/openqasm
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Quantum assembly language for extended quantum circuits
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Prasahnt contributed significantly to the development of the OpenPulse grammar, a key component of the openqasm/openqasm repository. Their work focused on defining the grammar for quantum pulse-level operations, including the implementation of frames, ports, and waveforms. The contributions involved extensive code modifications, including examples, and documentation updates. These contributions demonstrate a focus on extending and refining the OpenPulse framework.
assembly-languagequantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsextended
psivaraj/kaleidoscope-rust
Mar 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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