Rob Rood
Associate Technical Staff
Bellingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRob Rood is an experienced software engineer with about a decade of recent focused work and several decades overall, currently an Associate Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory developing hardware control and quantum-circuit resource estimation software for superconducting qubits. He combines deep systems and embedded-systems roots (C/C++ and real-time telephony/VoIP platforms) with modern Python-driven quantum software, bridging low-level hardware control and high-level quantum theory. His background includes leading application development and architecture roles across telephony, SaaS IVR platforms, and quantum startups, which gives him a rare cross-domain perspective on reliability, performance, and scalability. Rob also holds a graduate certificate in AI/ML and an M.A. in Criminal Justice, reflecting a habit of broadening technical expertise with interdisciplinary study. Based in Bellingham, Massachusetts, he brings pragmatic engineering and a focus on pushing quantum computing from theory toward deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at The University of Texas at AustinUMass LowellB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Bridgewater State University
Github Skills (8)
visual-design2
virtual-reality2
oms2
octopus2
openxr1
htc-vive1
defense1
theia1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
terrehbyte/HomeGame
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
RobRood/TheOnePool
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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