Kiran Mathew
Sr. Staff Engineer Software Lead For Hardware Test Systems at Ayar Labs
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKiran Mathew is a software lead and manager with 11 years of experience building high-performance scientific and test software for quantum and materials science applications, currently based in Palo Alto. He has led product and test engineering at Ayar Labs and architected core test automation, data pipelines, and scalable analysis stacks at PsiQuantum, leveraging Python, C++, Dask, Prefect, and AWS/Postgres/S3. His open-source contributions to flagship projects like atomate, pymatgen, phonopy, and fireworks demonstrate deep domain expertise in computational materials science, HPC workflows, and maintaining Python 3 compatibility across complex codebases. Kiran pairs a PhD in Materials Science from Cornell with hands-on firmware-to-cloud engineering, and has a track record of turning physics-driven simulation and measurement needs into production-grade, extensible software platforms. An understated strength is his ability to bridge domain science and pragmatic tooling—evident from building the Atomate high-throughput workflow used on DOE/NSF HPCs and productionizing measurement software across lab test stations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science Applied Physics (minor), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science Applied Physics (minor) at Cornell University
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
file-processing10
file-handling10
pymatgen10
computational-physics10
computational-chemistry10
file-access10
python10
fileio10
testing9
code-formatting9
apidoc9
linear-algebra9
api9
computational-materials-science7
materials-informatics7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hackingmaterials/atomate
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
atomate is a powerful software for computational materials science and contains pre-built workflows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:653 commits, 45 PRs, 366 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kiran's commits primarily involve modifying and improving code related to the computational materials science software "atomate." The contributions focus on enhancing functionality, addressing bugs, and integrating new features. Specifically, the user appears to be involved in developing features for VASP, a density functional theory package. Their work involves changes to several Python modules.
sciencecomputational-materials-sciencecomputational-materialsmaterials-scienceworkflows
materialsproject/pymatgen
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen) is a robust materials analysis code that defines classes for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes. It powers the Materials Project.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:284 commits, 54 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kiran primarily focused on modifying the QChem interface, specifically updating the handling of solvent parameters and fixing related bugs. This involved changes to the code in `pymatgen/io/qchem.py` and test adjustments in `pymatgen/io/tests/test_qchem.py`. The contributions included updating the parsing and usage of the use_pcm method, making the library compatible with different versions of the QChem software. These modifications suggest expertise in computational chemistry tools and back-end code development.
moleculespythonscienceelectronic-structurepowers
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