Tom Brown
Principal Quantum Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Brown is a Principal Quantum Software Engineer based in Redmond with 11 years of software engineering experience and a decade-plus career at Microsoft progressing from Software Engineer to Principal. He specializes in building software for quantum computing environments, bridging research-grade algorithms with production-quality tooling and developer workflows. Tom's background includes leadership roles across startups and agencies—founding and leading engineering teams—which gives him a strong product-minded perspective on shipping complex systems. He combines deep technical rigor from a Computer Science degree with hands-on implementation experience across UX, backend, and systems engineering. Known for translating cutting-edge quantum concepts into practical software, he thrives at the intersection of research and scalable engineering.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (35)
windows10
c-library10
cpp10
setuptools9
color-picker9
desktop9
python9
linux9
azure-functions9
cmake9
visual-studio9
sdk9
swig9
package-manager9
azure9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nextstate/linuxbiosupgrade
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
microsoft/azure-quantum-python
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
The azure-quantum python package submits jobs to the Azure Quantum service.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 days
development-kitpythonqdkquantum-computingpython-packages
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