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“Independent Quantum Algorithm Designer”
I’m just a fully-grown kid in a quantum toy store.
I get asked from time to time what my self-appointed job title means, and it basically means that I have no formal organizational or institutional affiliations. I can work with anybody and everybody. I could probably just call myself a “consultant,” but then half of my LinkedIn messaging would probably evaporate. It’s an anticlimactic answer, I know, so let me spice it up a little bit.
Because I have no affiliation-imposed restrictions, I get to play with everyone’s toys. I can compare and contrast, and determine while tools are the best for the task at hand. Over the years, I’ve probably lost track of a few of them, because I only continue to use a select few, but I’ve skimmed my past writing and compiled a list with most of them.
Hardware
I primarily use IBM Quantum backends, but I’ve also played with QuTech’s “Starmon-5” superconducting device, Xanadu’s “X8” and “Borealis” photonic devices, and QuEra’s “Aquila” neutral atom device. It can’t be used for computation, but I’ve also played with ColdQuanta’s “Albert” Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) generator.
Frameworks
I primarily use OpenQASM 2 in the IBM Quantum Composer, and I’ll generally use Qiskit…
