Volendam, Netherlands

I build websites, and software that has to survive contact with real hardware.

Quantum chemistry algorithms benchmarked against a live IBM Quantum backend. A camera dashboard pulling video off an ESP32 over raw TCP. A VS Code extension that stops me rewriting the same .env file for the fifth time.

Lucas Kluft, standing in a narrow Dutch street at sunset
Lucas Kluft
  • 4

    ground-state solvers benchmarked

    SQD, ED, VQE and DMRG, on the same CO₂ problem

  • ~4000

    lines of production code

    My own contribution to the MolKet benchmark

  • 3.24s

    to solve CO₂ ground state

    SQD on a laptop CPU, with a real quantum backend in the loop

  • 320×240

    the resolution that finally held

    Found by testing an ESP32-CAM stream until the lag stopped

Selected work

Three projects worth the long read

Each one hit a wall that was not in the plan, and each is written up in full.

Read the MolKet case study
Bar chart comparing wall-clock runtime of SQD, ED and DMRG on a logarithmic scale

MolKet · Multi-month team project

MolKet

Four ground-state solvers, one CO₂ molecule, and a very wide spread of runtimes.

A multi-month benchmark comparing SQD, ED, VQE and DMRG on the ground-state energy of CO₂. SQD converged in 3.24 seconds; a full DMRG run would have taken an estimated 72 years.

Project lead · VQE and Exact Diagonalization author

  • Quantum computing
  • Qiskit
  • Python
  • IBM Quantum
  • Project leadership
Read the Echoes case study
The Echoes camera dashboard, showing active streams, a network scanner, saved hosts, an LED intensity slider and a Switch to Dark Mode button

Society 5.0 · Sprint-based team project

Echoes

An ESP32 camera, a custom dashboard, and a deliberate argument about who surveillance is designed for.

A live video dashboard streaming from an ESP32-CAM over TCP, built twice on purpose: a Light version designed around consent, and a Dark version designed to be invisible.

Hardware and software developer

  • ESP32-CAM
  • JavaScript
  • TCP streaming
  • Embedded
  • Design ethics
Read the StackTools case study
The StackTools home page, showing the three sections: developer tools, code snippets, and tips and playbook

Live, in active development

StackTools

451 snippets I kept needing, 51 tools that run in the browser, and the first website I ever put online.

A free developer site at stacktools.org. It started as somewhere to keep the snippets I kept having to look up again — including 24 PowerShell snippets for Active Directory, the kind that are genuinely hard to find — and grew into 451 snippets, 51 browser-only tools and a written playbook.

Designer, developer and maintainer

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • PowerShell
  • Client-side only
  • Cloudflare
  • Product design

On GitHub

Public repositories

Pulled straight from the GitHub API at build time, so the numbers are never invented.

Read the Echoes From the Shadows case study

Echoes From the Shadows

Case study

ESP32-CAM live video over TCP, with a network scanner, saved hosts and audio capture. Built in a Light and a Dark version to demonstrate the difference between ethical and unethical surveillance.

  • ESP32
  • TCP streaming
  • Design ethics
JavaScript Updated 8 months ago
Open Env Warehouse on GitHub

Env Warehouse

A VS Code extension that stores your .env variables in a central sidebar and reuses them across projects. Supports named sets for local, staging and prod, with one-action import into a .env file.

  • VS Code extension
  • TypeScript
  • Developer tooling
TypeScript Updated 5 months ago
Open Quantum Computing Minor on GitHub

Quantum Computing Minor

Assignments and algorithm implementations from my quantum computing minor. Jupyter notebooks working through circuits, gates and the algorithms that later fed into the MolKet benchmark.

  • Jupyter
  • Qiskit
  • Algorithms
Jupyter Notebook Updated 3 months ago
Open Quantum Computing Ebooks on GitHub

Quantum Computing Ebooks

Worked exercises from the quantum computing ebooks I studied before the minor. Where the Qiskit habit started.

  • Python
  • Qiskit
  • Self-study
Python Updated last year

All projects and repositories

Toolkit

What I reach for

Quantum

  • Qiskit
  • SQD
  • Exact Diagonalization
  • VQE
  • DMRG
  • Jordan-Wigner mapping
  • IBM Quantum runtime

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C++ (Arduino)
  • HTML/CSS

Hardware

  • ESP32-CAM
  • TCP streaming
  • Embedded microphones
  • Network host discovery

Ways of working

  • Project leadership
  • Issue tracking
  • Risk & milestone planning
  • Sprint delivery
  • Client communication

Want to talk about any of it?

Quantum algorithms, embedded video, or making two stubborn systems agree with each other.

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