Adrien Suau

Senior Open-Source Software Engineer

Riverlane

Biography

I build the open-source software tools that practical quantum error correction will need in the future, focusing on low-level details, benchmarking, and engineering workflows.

Interests

Quantum computing
Scientific computing
Low-level programming
Data structures
Mathematics
Algorithmic complexity
Science fiction
Mangas

Education

PhD in Quantum Computing, 2022
University of Montpellier, CERFACS
Master of Science, 2018
MSIAM, Grenoble-Alpes University
Engineering school, 2018
ENSIMAG
Preparatory class to "Grandes Écoles", 2015
La Prépa des INP

Skills

Python

Daily usage in a professional environment, publication of several medium-sized packages to PyPi.

Quantum computing

Working in the field since 2018, PhD and several years of industry experience.

Quantum error-correction

Working in the field since 2022, open-source maintainer.

Git

Medium/Advanced user of git.

VS Code

Daily user for Python, C++ and Markdown.

Linux

Daily user since around 2013.

French

Native language.

English

Fluent both orally and in writing.

Japanese

Beginner.

Experience

Senior Open-Source Software Engineer

Riverlane

August 2025 – Present Cambridge, UK

Main developer of Deltakit, an open-source library for quantum error-correction.

Entrepreneur

QraftWare

January 2023 – August 2025 Toulouse

Building my own company and software for quantum computing software engineers.

PhD Student

CERFACS

November 2019 – October 2022 Toulouse

PhD performed in tri-partite collaboration between CERFACS, LIRMM and Total.

Research focused on quantum algorithms and their potential applications to any field of scientific computing. Particular emphasis made on PDE and linear algebra.

Summer PhD intern

Los Alamos National Laboratory

June 2021 – September 2021 New-Mexico (teleworking from Toulouse, France)

Highly selective program (summer school) of 10 weeks. Conducted a research project under the supervision of Carleton Coffrin, Marc Vuffray, Andrey Lokhov, Jon Nelson and Lukasz Cincio.

The school is organised by Patrick Coles, Lukasz Cincio, Yigist Subasi, Daniel O’Malley and Jamie Lattimore.

Research engineer

CERFACS

October 2018 – September 2019 Toulouse

Research focused on Hamiltonian simulation.

Implementation of a Hamiltonian simulation procedure using product formulas.
Implementation of a quantum wave equation solver.

Intern

CERFACS

February 2018 – July 2018 Toulouse

Performed a state of the art of the existing algorithms in quantum computing.

The goal of this internship was to start looking into quantum computing to figure out if this field might be interesting for CERFACS. Particular emphasis on CFD problems and more generally on PDEs.