Zak Espley
Quantum Coherent Device Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZak Espley is a experimental physicist and early-career quantum engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating lab systems, from microfluidic droplet generators to dilution-refrigerator superconducting circuits. Currently interning with Lawrence Livermore's Quantum Coherent Device Group, he designed a transmon circuit to emulate the Hamiltonian of interacting neutrinos and performed cryogenic hardware maintenance. He holds a 4.0 MS in Physics with a focus in Quantum Information Science and was awarded an NSF National Research Traineeship in Quantum Technology. Zak combines practical fabrication and CAD/3D-printing skills with scripting (Python, Arduino, ImageJ) to modernize instructional and research labs, and has a track record of turning ad hoc lab needs into reproducible, documented systems. Notably, he moved between teaching, process engineering, and research roles—bridging education and cutting-edge quantum hardware development.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityPhysics, Physics at Sierra CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (41)
v4l29
raspberry-pi8
python8
home-assistant7
iot7
home-automation7
streamer7
spotify6
automation6
privacy6
mqtt6
streaming5
webrtc5
asyncio5
rtmp5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ilg-physics-ucsb/physics3l-manual
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 125 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
ilg-physics-ucsb/remoteLabs
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 586 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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