Timur Bazhirov
Founder, CEO at Mat3ra.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimur Bazhirov is a founder and CEO who builds cloud and high-performance software to accelerate materials discovery, blending a UC Berkeley PhD in physics with deep engineering experience. He founded Exabyte.io and now leads Mat3ra.com, scaling both companies to secure Fortune 500 customers and venture backing including investors like Tim Draper. His work spans first-principles materials modeling, distributed simulation workflows, and production-grade platforms that consolidate simulation tools and ML for industrial R&D. Timur combines hands-on coding and HPC optimization (millions of compute hours on top supercomputers) with strategic product leadership across energy, semiconductor, and manufacturing sectors. Notably, he published peer-reviewed research as a teenager and has driven international commercial adoption of materials modeling software. Based in San Francisco, he hires across science, software, and sales to bridge academic-grade simulation with enterprise impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of California, BerkeleyMSc Applied Physics and Mathematics, MSc Applied Physics and Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian, Tatar
Github Skills (82)
threejs10
density-functional-theory10
simulation-modeling10
cloud-computing10
python10
crystallography10
code-analysis10
genomics10
relationship10
atomic-design10
node-library10
chemistry10
3d-models10
science10
json10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Exabyte-io/made
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Materials Design in Javascript (made.js). A JavaScript (Node) library allowing for the creation and manipulation of material structures from atoms up on the web.
Contributions:707 reviews, 57 commits, 60 PRs in 3 years 10 months
manipulationchemistryatomscomputer-aided-designjavascript
Exabyte-io/prode.js
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
Property definitions used within the Mat3ra Workflow Ecosystem
Contributions:33 reviews, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years
definitionsecosystemworkflow
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