Alexander Varga | Entrepreneur and software engineer. Master's in quantum computing. Building AI-native ventures.

01 About

Software engineer with six years of experience building systems across AI, quantum computing, distributed systems, and applied cryptography, for startups and through my own consultancy. Now building emerging-tech ventures: service-as-software products and AI-native companies. Open to software, data, and ML engineering roles.

02 Work

Varga Capital

2022 – PresentOwner / Consultant · International

Software consulting across full-stack development, data science, and machine learning. Recent client work applies AI, blockchain, and quantum methods. Building service-as-software products and AI-native companies.

Quantum City

2025 – 2025Research Intern · Contract · Alberta, CA

AI agents for quantum computing.

Mala Connect

2023 – 2025Software Engineer · Remote · Köln, DE

Full-stack healthcare platform connecting people who need care with providers. Next.js, TypeScript, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, GCP, Stripe.

Confidential client

2022 – 2024Software Security Developer · Remote · Toronto / Prague

Privacy-enhancing software combining fully homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and machine learning, built for GDPR and CPPA compliance with quantum-resistant primitives. Rust.

SECURE Energy Services

2022 – 2022Software Consultant · Contract · Alberta, CA

Led an MSSQL performance initiative: query redesign, documentation of tables and views, and consolidation of critical pain points.

Embedded Systems Products Inc.

2021 – 2021Embedded Systems Consultant · Contract · Alberta, CA

Testing and refinement of virtual-assistant hardware; unit-testing methodology for embedded systems.

03 Selected projects

Semantic Hilbert Space SearchWinner · Q2B24 Silicon Valley

2024

Quantum-accelerated semantic search over text corpora, combining Grover's algorithm with NLP embeddings. Hackathon hosted by IBM Quantum, Aqora & QCWare.

Qiskit · Python · Grover's algorithm

Q-ImpactWinner · GenQ 2024

2024

Sustainable-investment portfolio optimization with quantum approximate optimization and tensor networks. Hosted by QAI Ventures.

QAOA · Tensor networks · Next.js

Pintxo

In progress

Natural-language interface to the blockchain.

Cohere · Vespa · Kafka · Substreams

GeCover

2023

AI toolkit that accelerates the job-application process.

Next.js · FastAPI · Cohere / OpenAI fine-tuning

EzServe

2023

LLM-powered tableside server running on a Raspberry Pi: speech, translation, and ordering via Square.

LangChain · Vertex AI · Weaviate · Raspberry Pi

Also: an LLM sprint planner for Jira, a life-sized humanoid robot (capstone), a distributed coupon system, speaker recognition with GMMs, and more, all on GitHub.

04 Education

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

2025 – 2025Diploma, Software for Heterogeneous Architectures (tCSC 2025)

D-Wave

2025 – 2025Certificate, Quantum Programming Core

University of Calgary

2024 – 2025Master's, Quantum Computing (MQuaC)

University of Calgary

2019 – 2023B.Sc., Software & Biomedical Engineering

University of Calgary

2019 – 2022Certificate, Engineering Leadership

05 Focus

Quantum: Quantum algorithms, Qiskit, Cirq, QAOA, Tensor networks
AI / ML: LLM systems, LangChain, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLOps
Languages: Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Rust, C/C++, Java, Solidity
Web & backend: React / Next.js, Vue.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Django, Flask, REST / GraphQL / gRPC, SQL / NoSQL, Vector databases
Cloud & systems: AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Distributed systems, Event-driven architecture, Microservices
Security: Applied cryptography (FHE, ZKP), OAuth / JWT / SSO, Cybersecurity
Spoken: English, French, Spanish