KC Erb, Ph.D
About Me
I’m a technical strategist with a physicist’s brain and a product manager’s soul. My favorite work involves motivating teams around bold but achievable goals. I believe in clarity, empathy, and leading with humility.
Experience
- Currently a staff software engineer at IonQ responsible for product delivery
- Created modern developer tooling that streamlined deployment times
- Coordinated multi-team projects spanning research, software, and operations
- Managed roadmaps and timelines for high-impact deliverables
Skills
- Distilling complexity
- Legacy code salvation
- Public speaking
- Difficult conversations
- Node, Python, Crystal, Ruby, Rust
- Docker, ssh, git, etc.
- Test-driven development
- lower-case agile
Hobbies
- Playing with my kids
- Astronomy & stargazing
- Learning new languages
- Piano, trombone, singing, music
- Soldering and hardware tinkering
- Reading (mostly classics right now)
- Woodworking
Contact
KC Erb, Ph.D
Snohomish, WA
801.554.8253
[email protected]