# Robert Mather

> Lead Engineer of Laser Products | GPU-accelerated semiconductor manufacturing software @ D2S Inc.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/robertmather

I take long-term ownership and build powerful teams and technology to deliver on a concept.

Currently focused on semiconductor lithography

Previously: Micropayments for online content, music discovery and streaming, online ordering and food delivery, job search, and some secret stuff.

## Work Experience
### Lead Engineer @ D2S, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ D2S, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
Rsponsible for development and delivery of a mask design correction system based on a GPU-accelerated compute cluster and multi-100k line C++/CUDA codebase with over 12 years of development history and 10s of contributors. 

We develop GPU-accelerated software products and platforms for semiconductor design, modeling, simulation, and correction.  

We're a globally-distributed team collaborating on deep engineering problems with hard constraints.

### Co-Founder | Lead Developer @ MuPay
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Users should be able to pay for online content wherever it lives, directly and without friction.

### Tech, product, and IP consultant @ Public Benefit Corporation in stealth mode
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Startup in stealth mode

### Co-Founder | Lead Developer @ Busker.fm
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Las Vegas, Nevada
Playlists featuring crowd-sourced, street-level musicians alongside stars in a Pandora-like music discovery experience.

### Software Developer @ Patronpath, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Indianapolis, Indiana Area
White-label online ordering as a service for restaurants. We put menus online, took orders from customers, and injected them directly into the POS system at the restaurant.

I implemented the self-updating POS integration client that ran locally on restaurant machines.

We used Java for backend services and POS integration, ActiveMQ and PubNub for messaging, PHP+JS for the web front ends, MySQL for critical data, and MongoDB for menu diff/sync bookkeeping, all running on AWS.

### Co-Founder | Developer | Investor @ Rising Green
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Holyoke, Massachusetts
Online job search for students with an environmental focus. In-person, career-oriented social events.

### Supply Chain and Logistics Consultant @ IBM Global Business Services
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater St. Louis Area
Data analysis, process automation, and program management support for DoD logistics.

### Academic Tutor @ Varsity Tutors LLC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
High-school and college level mathematics and computer science.

### Teaching Assistant for Management Science @ Olin Business School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Student help sessions and grading.

### Market Analysis Intern @ Towle & Co.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
Industry research, on-site company research, fundamental analysis, executive level reports.


## Education
### B.S. in Business Administration in Mathematices, Finance, Computer Science (minor)
Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robertmather
- Portfolio: http://www.RisingGreen.com
- Portfolio: http://blog.RisingGreen.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-10