Simão João
Software Engineer at CloudNC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimão João is a software engineer and researcher with 8 years' experience specializing in high-performance computing, GPU programming, and analytical modelling, now building production systems at CloudNC. He holds a PhD in Physics from Universidade do Porto and was a Research Associate at Imperial College London, where his work bridged theory and scalable software for quantum transport. As a core developer of the open-source KITE project, he has deep C++/HPC credentials and experience shipping large-scale parallel simulation code. An Olympiad winner and former physics lecturer, he combines strong pedagogy and mentoring with hands-on algorithmic problem solving. Notably, his background includes short-term research collaborations across leading labs (Delaware, York) and organizing international physics teams—evidence of both technical prestige and operational leadership.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Universidade do Porto
Github Skills (3)
kite6
transport5
quantum-computing4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Jlischner/MaxTB
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
quantum-kite/kite
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:194 commits in 4 years 9 months
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