Shane Caldwell
Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolShane Caldwell is a Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA with 11 years of deep experience building quantum hardware and the software ecosystems that make QPUs practical. He holds a PhD in experimental ion-trap physics and spent a decade at Rigetti where he split time between hands-on quantum engineering and leading internal software—delivering a multi-year rewrite, automating deployments, and growing a 60-contributor developer ecosystem. Shane combines rigorous experimental discipline (including precision metrology and cryogenic systems) with product leadership, having re-architected calibration stacks and aligned quantum-native instruction languages for internal and external users. He’s known for turning complex lab systems into production-facing tools and for mentoring senior engineers while driving measurable performance and schedule wins. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare blend of physics-first thinking and scalable software product delivery to the commercial quantum computing stack.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The University of Chicago
Github Skills (51)
quil10
validation9
pythonic9
parser9
parsing9
least-squares9
gtk9
julia9
science9
quantum-computing9
curve8
esoteric-programming-language8
python8
hpc8
curve-fitting8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
caldwellshane/BFit2
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
caldwellshane/beta-delayed-neutrons
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 issue in 4 months
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