Work Experience

  • Advanced Quantum Software Engineer
    IQM Quantum Computers, Munich, Germany (Oct 2025 - present)

    • Designed the end-to-end backend pipeline for compiling and submitting quantum circuits to IQM's quantum hardware. Leading the architectural design of several Qrisp new features.

    • Wrote roadmaps, ADRs, and contributing guidelines. Coordinated refactoring projects across 10+ developers to enforce optimal design patterns and code quality standards across the Qrisp codebase.

    • Implemented core features and algorithms in Qrisp — particularly in Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation mode with JAX.

    • Presenting the tutorial Eclipse Qrisp: High-Level Quantum Programming for Dynamic Algorithms at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 in Toronto, on writing dynamic quantum algorithms with Qrisp.

    • Authored Solving the MaxCut problem with QAOA using Qrisp, a hands-on notebook published on the IQM Academy that runs on IQM quantum hardware.

    • Core contributor to Qrisp, IQM's adopted open-source high-level Python framework for writing and compiling quantum circuits.

  • Quantum Software Developer II
    Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada (Feb 2024 - Oct 2025)

    • Contributed to a multi-year effort to capture the entire PennyLane workflow into the JAX computational graph for JIT quantum compilation, accelerating quantum machine learning pipelines. Prototyped a Python compiler based on MLIR to apply quantum transforms as compilation passes.

    • Developed DefaultTensor, a PennyLane quantum device based on tensor network simulations, enabling the simulation of quantum circuits with thousands of gates. The public tutorial is available on the PennyLane website.

    • Core team release manager for PennyLane 0.41 and PennyLane 0.40, and several PennyLane plugins. Mentored Ph.D. residents during onboarding. Wrote documentation, tutorials, and guides for users.

    • Core contributor (300+ commits) to PennyLane, a leading open-source Python/C++ framework for quantum machine learning with 3000+ GitHub stars and 800+ forks.

  • Scientific translator
    Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, Italy (Jan 2025 - Jul 2025)

  • Researcher and Teaching assistant
    Western University, London, ON, Canada (Sep 2020 - Dec 2023)

    • Conducted scientific research with the backing of the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada.

    • Integrated high-performance computing into loop quantum gravity research. Published original contributions in peer-reviewed journals, also as a first and solo author.

    • Teaching assistant for engineering students in Calculus I, Calculus II, and Numerical Methods courses.

  • Scientific translator
    Adelphi Edizioni, Milano, Italy (Jun 2020 - Feb 2021)

  • Lifeguard
    New Kalos, Rimini, Italy (Jun 2012 - Aug 2012)

    • Lifeguard in a swimming pool during summertime in Rimini, Italy. Seasonal work during the formative years.

Conference Talks and Tutorials

  • Eclipse Qrisp: High-Level Quantum Programming for Dynamic Algorithms, tutorial on dynamic quantum computing. IEEE Quantum Week 2026 (QCE26), Toronto, ON, Canada (Sep 2026, upcoming).

  • Recent advances in numerical LQG. LOOPS 2022, École normale supérieure in Lyon, France (Jul 2022).

  • Numerical techniques in covariant LQG. 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Remote (Jul 2021).

Volunteering

  • Volunteered for three months in the UK between Dec 2019 and Feb 2020. Spent time in a vibrant community college in the picturesque South Oxfordshire countryside, called Braziers Park.