Xinyi Joffre
Principal Quantum Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolXinyi Joffre is a Principal Quantum Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with nine years of experience building cloud-native services and developer tooling, currently leading the Azure Quantum services team and a ~20-person organization. She combines hands-on engineering in Python and C#/.NET with product-led team building to ship the Azure Quantum public preview, SDKs, and web learning experiences like quantum.microsoft.com. Her background spans quantum, chemistry, automotive, health, and retail, and she has repeatedly delivered large-scale partner projects—from autonomous factory robotics to smart device platforms—by "coding with" partner teams through architecture to production. An active contributor to Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit samples, she improves notebook and iqsharp integrations that help onboard users to quantum programming. Known for tackling hard, cross-disciplinary problems, she emphasizes engineering fundamentals, automated deployments, and mentorship to turn research-grade tech into usable cloud services. Based in Seattle, she enjoys building products from the ground up and shaping long-term direction while keeping teams energetic and pragmatic.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and History, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and History at Grand Valley State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Grand Haven High School
English, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew
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Github Skills (6)
quantum-computing10
qiskit10
cirq10
python10
documentation9
github8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Quantum
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Microsoft Quantum Development Kit Samples
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 60 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Xinyi contributed to the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit samples by updating iqsharp outputs and adding features to existing samples. They also added and updated notebook samples from a feature branch, encompassing changes to code, descriptions, and links. Further, they addressed several small sample fixes to improve link functionality and correct API usage within Azure hosted notebooks.
development-kitpythonqdkquantum-computingqsharp
xinyi-joffre/azure-rest-api-specs
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches, 4 tags in 4 years 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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