Summary
Robert Mather is a lead engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building high-performance software and teams, currently focused on GPU-accelerated lithography and mask correction systems for semiconductor design. He leads development on a multi-100k-line C++/CUDA codebase running on GPU clusters, owning long-term technical direction and delivery across a globally distributed team. Previously he co-founded and led engineering for consumer-facing startups in micropayments, music discovery, and online ordering, bringing product intuition to hard engineering problems. His background blends systems engineering, startup founding, and supply-chain analytics, enabling him to translate ambiguous product concepts into production-grade platforms. Notably, he has hands-on experience integrating legacy codebases and scaling compute-heavy pipelines under tight correctness constraints. He pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial instincts and a preference for taking long-term ownership of both technology and teams.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Business Administration, Mathematices, Finance, Computer Science (minor), B.S. in Business Administration, Mathematices, Finance, Computer Science (minor) at Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School
Spanish, Portuguese