Rudy Putra is an Executive Director and applied quantum research leader with nine years of focused experience translating quantum algorithms, optimization, and machine learning research into practical technology programs across academia and industry. He splits his time between JPMorgan Chase’s global technology applied research and academic appointments at the University of Tokyo and Keio University, driving quantum-native education and efforts toward quantum advantage. With a PhD from Kyoto University and a long tenure at IBM Quantum, Rudy combines deep theoretical expertise (quantum query complexity and network coding) with hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects like Qiskit, where he enhanced tutorials and multilingual documentation. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between rigorous research and production-ready developer tooling, able to communicate complex quantum ideas clearly to diverse technical audiences. An understated but telling detail: he has steadily contributed practical educational materials (including Japanese-language support) that broaden access to quantum computing.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Institut Teknologi Bandung
SMA Taruna Nusantara
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
McGill University
Ph.D, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Ph.D, Computer Engineering and Informatics at Kyoto University
A collection of Jupyter notebooks showing how to use the Qiskit SDK
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:204 commits, 130 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:The user, Takashi Imamichi, added documentation, specifically the author information and links to the rendered notebook view in an existing tutorial notebook, the index.ipynb. They also created a new notebook, 5_games/Quantum_magic_square.ipynb, which was then revised with added references and sentence edits. The user's work included refining content, and adding details to explain complex concepts.
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 44 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rudy's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the documentation within the Qiskit repository. The commits added new tutorial content, modified existing explanations, and included Japanese language support for installation instructions and other documentation. This work involved updating the tutorial structure and adding links to related content such as the Quantum Random Access Coding and Quantum Games. The user also conformed the code with the latest SDK changes.
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Rudy Putra - Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.