Joaquin Matres
Co-Founder And CTO at GDSFactory
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoaquin Matres is a chip design leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building silicon photonics and integrated optics across Intel, HP Labs, PsiQuantum and Google X. As Co-Founder and CTO of GDSFactory, he turned an open-source Python-first chip design toolkit into a widely adopted platform (4M+ downloads, 105+ contributors) and commercialized enterprise-grade GDSFactory+ PDK and verification services. He has led teams from single engineers to 100+, shipped dozens of photonic ICs, and helped scale design-for-foundry workflows for photonics, quantum and MEMS. Known for marrying rigorous research (PhD in Silicon Photonics) with pragmatic software engineering, he also helped seed Google’s open silicon ecosystem efforts inspired by TensorFlow’s impact. Based in Mountain View, he combines hands-on layout, automation and tool-building with community-driven open-source stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford leaders in communication (SLIC), Stanford leaders in communication (SLIC) at Stanford UniversityUniversitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, Catalan, English, German
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Github Skills (200)
hardware-designs10
photonics10
svg10
3d10
cpp10
mesh10
mems10
hardware10
hackmd10
verilog10
python10
klayout10
simulations10
plot10
numba10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
joamatab/SiPANN
May 2020 - Jan 2025
Artifical Neural Networks for use with Quantum Photonics
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 8 months
neural-network
gdsfactory/gdsfactory-test-data
May 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:307 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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