Smit Sanghavi
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSmit Sanghavi is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 7 years of experience building large-scale systems and developer tooling at Google and DeepMind. He has progressed from backend roles in Display Ads to leading LLM tooling and infrastructure, then into tech lead management before returning to senior engineering at DeepMind, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and people leadership. Smit contributes to high-profile open-source projects like quantumlib/Cirq, where he implemented and tested quantum circuit manipulation and optimization features—an uncommon crossover between production engineering and quantum software. He focuses on robust backend systems, test automation, and pragmatic optimization of complex conversions and gate behaviors. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who balances rigorous testing with shipping impactful features. He holds a B.Tech. in Information and Communication Technology and brings a pattern of evolving technical scope across research-adjacent and production environments.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier's SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information and Communication Technolgy, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information and Communication Technolgy at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (11)
circuit10
unit-testing10
quantum-computing10
quantum-algorithms10
cirq10
python10
test-automation10
testing9
api9
algorithms9
machine-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quantumlib/Cirq
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
A Python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 59 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Smit contributed to the `cirq` repository by implementing and testing features related to quantum circuit manipulation, specifically focusing on the `ControlledGate` class and its behavior, as well as expanding the circuit optimization and conversion capabilities. The user's work included modifications to the `expand_composite`, and `convert_to_cz_and_single_gates` features, and also involved fixing bugs. Testing was integral to the work and demonstrated with updates to the test suites within the repository.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-algorithms
smitsanghavi/Cirq-1
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
A python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.
Contributions:2 PRs, 281 pushes, 77 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythonquantum-computingcircuitsscaleinvoking
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