Ray Smets
President And CEO at Quantum Circuits, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRay Smets is a seasoned technology CEO with 12+ years in executive leadership and a multi-decade track record transforming networking, telecom, security and emerging quantum computing businesses. Currently President & CEO of Quantum Circuits, he has led public and private turnarounds, drove Napatech from recovery to 14 quarters of revenue growth and a 10x stock appreciation, and scaled Cisco’s wireless business from $900M to $1.5B. Known for combining engineering instincts ("hacker by nature, engineer by trade") with investor-grade P&L discipline, he builds product-led teams that win strategic partnerships with industry leaders like Intel and Xilinx/AMD. Ray is comfortable navigating M&A, capital raises and IPO environments while preserving culture and customer focus. His background spans hands-on product strategy through full-stack quantum hardware commercialization—an uncommon mix of deep operational execution and early-stage science-driven innovation.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
SEP MGMT Management, SEP MGMT Management at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA Management, MBA Management at Nova Southeastern UniversityBSE Engineering, BSE Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
e2e10
graphql-api10
thin10
browser10
react-testing-library10
nodejs10
mongodb10
svelte-testing-library10
file-storage10
component-testing10
expressjs10
controller10
rest-api10
mbaas10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
UnumID/Library-Issuer-Verifier-Utility
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
a utility library for common functionality shared by https://github.com/UnumID/Issuer-Server-SDK-TypeScript and https://github.com/UnumID/Verifier-Server-SDK-TypeScript
Contributions:9 releases, 9 reviews, 50 PRs in 4 months
resolveverifierjavascriptsdkissuer
UnumID/hooli-demo-client
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 12 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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