  Basis Light-Front Quantized Field Theory (BLFQ) is an $\textit{ab intio}$
Hamiltonian approach that adopts light-cone gauge, light-front quantization and
state-of-the-art many-body methods to solve non-perturbative quantum field
theory problems. By a suitable choice of basis, BLFQ retains the underlying
symmetries to the extent allowed within light-front coordinates. In this talk,
we outline the scheme for applying BLFQ to QCD bound state problems. We adopt a
2D Harmonic Oscillator with 1D plane wave basis that corresponds to the AdS/QCD
soft-wall solution. Exact treatment of the symmetries will be discussed.
