No-one used my software: a tale of quantum software engineering

Quantum software engineering sounds complicated. Nevertheless, my experience is that the hard part of quantum software is not quantum, but software and engineering.

Paraphrasing a famous quote one might say that “quantum software engineering is a journey, not a destination”, a mantra that also fits this talk. As such rather than focusing on the destination I can divulge that the chapters of this story includes “How multiple inheritance killed my SDK” and its sequel “The return of the SDK” which will outline some the development process that led to Pasqal's latest open-source SDK Qadence, a and a recurring entr'acte: “the GPU strikes back”, wherein the lure of GPU accelerated compute frequently leads our hero astray.

Building on the experience of over 3.5 years building software across teams at the full-stack quantum company Pasqal the presenter intends to bring a high-level view with concrete examples and demystify quantum software in a way that is accessible to the wider open-source community yet interesting and informative for practitioners.