Dan Girshovich

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

January 2021–presentMunich, Germany

Led the Orb software organization from prototypes through production and field deployment.
Responsibilities included: engineering design, project management, hiring, managing external contracts and security audits, and performance evaluations.

Research Software Engineer · Contract

June–December 2020Cambridge, MA

Collaborated with ACED in applying Julia’s SciML tools to electrochemical optimization problems.

Software Engineer

January 2017–November 2019Berkeley, CA

Built internal modeling and simulation tools for superconducting quantum-processor design.
Worked with experimental physicists to automate calibration and measurement of prototype quantum processors.
Built backend infrastructure for Quantum Cloud Services and internal services.

Avionics Software Engineer

July 2014–November 2016Mountain View, CA

Worked on prototypes of a manned electric aircraft.
Designed and automated hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure for the avionics suite.
Built internal tools, including software for flashing flight binaries on an integrated aircraft.

Avionics Test Software Intern

June–August 2013Hawthorne, CA

Automated hardware acceptance testing with a custom graphical interface and a domain-specific language.

Program Manager

September 2012–December 2013Ithaca, NY

Led a team of 60 students and ran technical reviews across flight software, radio, power, ground operations, harness and mechanical subsystems.

B.S. Engineering Physics, cum laude · GPA: 3.7

2010–2014Ithaca, NY