Ryan Babbush
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Babbush is a research-driven software leader with nine years of experience focused on algorithms and applications for quantum computing, currently serving as a Director and Principal Scientist at Google. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends deep technical research with hands-on engineering, contributing to prominent open-source projects like OpenFermion where he improved core functionality, documentation, and fermionic measurement tooling. Ryan's work bridges theoretical quantum chemistry and practical software infrastructure, enabling electronic structure computation on emerging quantum hardware. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often tackles compatibility and tooling gaps that accelerate adoption of research code in production-like environments.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
python10
documentation10
ec9
quantum-computing9
linear-programming8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
quantumlib/OpenFermion
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
The electronic structure package for quantum computers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 126 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the OpenFermion project by modifying and improving code related to the core functionality. Their commits included updates to the README file, fixing documentation links, adding RDM measurement code, addressing Python 3 compatibility issues, and integrating linear programming constraints. The changes suggest a focus on code maintenance, documentation, and potentially expanding the project's capabilities related to fermionic systems.
electronic-structurequantum-computingquantum-algorithmscomputerselectronic
ProjectQ-Framework/FermiLib
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 127 PRs, 94 pushes in 10 months
analyzingquantum-computingsimulationquantumopen-source-software
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