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# [Running Qiskit circuits on a near-Clifford simulator: building the clifft-qiskit provider](https://engineeringwithashmit.hashnode.dev/building-the-clifft-qiskit-provider?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How I built and shipped clifft-qiskit, a Qiskit BackendV2 provider for the clifft near-Clifford simulator - the translation layer, the measurement ordering that is easy to get wrong, and the tag-driven release that puts it on PyPI.

Jul 14 · 15 min read · engineeringwithashmit.hashnode.dev  
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Software Development Engineer working on scalable backend systems and developer platforms, with experience in full-stack and quantum computing software development. Open-source contributor and Google Summer of Code mentor. Interested in system design, distributed systems, and quantum computing. I write to simplify System Design, real-world software architecture, and open-source for early-career engineers.

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