Vandiver Chaplin
Principal Engineer at IonQ
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolVandiver Chaplin is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience blending physics, imaging science, and production software to push quantum computing from lab to product. After building ground calibration and data-processing tools for NASA’s Fermi mission, he earned a PhD developing trans-cranial ultrasound systems and then pivoted to IonQ, where he’s advanced control and simulation stacks across engineering and computational physics roles. He excels at translating complex physical systems into reliable, scalable software—bringing experimental rigour, instrument calibration expertise, and a scientist’s attention to reproducibility to engineering problems. Based in Portland, he pairs academic publications with hands-on production delivery, making him adept at bridging research prototypes and deployable quantum hardware/software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Physics, Master’s Degree Physics at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical and Physical Biology Imaging Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical and Physical Biology Imaging Science at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (6)
simplify5
node-api5
nodejs4
nvm3
rust2
napi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vlchaplin/VeraUSpub
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
vlchaplin/pyRayleighCuda
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 release, 114 commits, 16 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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