About
Ismaeel Bashir is co-founder and CEO of Expanse. He previously worked on machine learning infrastructure at a quantitative trading firm and developed high-performance computing resource prediction tools at Edinburgh's Parallel Computing Centre. He studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Ismaeel Bashir @ismaeel_bashir_
Early on, Jensen Huang was struggling to find a way to differentiate @nvidia Then it hits him: he sees the OpenGL manual in a Fry's Electronics, and buys three copies. Gives one to each engineer. what a goat. parallelising before GPUs existed :)
Jun 7, 2026 · ♥ 6 · ⇄ 1
Ismaeel Bashir @ismaeel_bashir_
Bro what? 😭 we don’t resell compute. We do increase your effective GPU capacity tho (https://t.co/xhCFivuYnr) These AI news articles need some validation (seems to be scraped from today’s hacker news post on us and was very poorly copied and rewritten) Thanks for the promo tho
Jun 2, 2026 · ♥ 8
Ismaeel Bashir @ismaeel_bashir_
Shoutout Expanse 😭 Gonna tell my grandkids @paulg was talking about us 🥀 https://t.co/gT5I7npTCI
Jun 2, 2026 · ♥ 5 · ⇄ 1
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Intro paths
Ismaeel went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Expanse's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Ismaeel can intro founders to Expanse's investors below.
Expanse's investors · 2
Co-founders at Expanse
Experience
- ExpanseChief Executive Officercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Qube Research & TechnologiesQuantitative Developer2025London Area, United Kingdom
- ICSA Research Group (Edinburgh University)Research Assistant2023 — 2025Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Morgan StanleySoftware Engineer2024Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
- My Personal Trainer AIFounder2023 — 2024
- EpicEatsCTO2023Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- MHouseSoftware Engineer2022Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Education
- The University of EdinburghMasters of Informatics (Minf), Computer Science2021 — 2026
Skills & more
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Problem SolvingCreative Problem SolvingAnalytical SkillsHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Batch ProcessingData PipelinesStatistical Data AnalysisFinancial ModelingDevOpsTechnology LeadershipRisk ManagementDigital StrategyFrom Ismaeel's professional profile.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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The University of Edinburgh mafia28
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Same school
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Shared employers
Also worked at Expanse3
Also worked at Qube Research & Technologies1
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