About Coherence Engine, and the people building it.

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Built by people who have built control stacks.

Control-stack and product experience, EDA engineering, quantum architecture.

Leadership

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   Dr Robin Sterling

   CEO & Founder

   Dr Robin Sterling brings nearly two decades of experience in quantum computing and deep-tech systems engineering.

   He has worked across quantum hardware, control systems, and large-scale architecture design, with a track record of building and leading multidisciplinary teams delivering complex, commercial infrastructure products.

   Robin holds a PhD in quantum computing and focuses on turning foundational scaling problems into defensible, category-defining software platforms.

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   Dr John Clarke

   Head of Engineering

   Dr John Clarke brings over two decades of experience at the intersection of hardware and software to Coherence Engine. As Associate Technical Director at Broadcom, he led 50 engineers across three continents, delivering video codec silicon and firmware shipping in over 88 million devices.

   He has twice served as a 0-to-1 CTO, at Cydar Medical and Cyban, building teams, products and regulatory frameworks from scratch, including pioneering cloud supercomputing for real-time medical devices. John’s hands-on EDA expertise spans Synopsys, Cadence, FPGA verification platforms, SystemVerilog and HDL. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision and Robotics from the University of Oxford.

Engineering

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   Molly Ducker

   R&D Engineer

   Molly works on validation and the physics behind AnalogLab’s models. She checks how the simulator treats thermal noise in the cold stages, down to the photon statistics of each part, and tests the models against measured data.

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   Ali Alafranji

   Frontend Engineer

   Ali builds AnalogLab’s interface: the canvas where a chain is laid out across its temperature stages, the Inspector, and the views where the signal is probed and the noise is budgeted. His work is making every reading clear on screen.