Ismaeel Bashir

Do twice as much with the compute you already have @ Expanse (YC P26)

Founder

Expanse· Spring 2026🇬🇧 United Kingdom

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ismaeel_bashir_

2025Quantitative Developer· Qube Research & Technologies

Founder · since 2023

Company

Qube Research & Technologies

Role

Quantitative Developer

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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Based

London Area, United Kingdom

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Expanse

Unlock wasted GPU capacity.

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Expanse
Chief Executive Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Qube Research & Technologies
Quantitative Developer · London Area, United Kingdom · 2025
2025
ICSA Research Group (Edinburgh University)
Research Assistant · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · 2023 – 2025
2023
Morgan Stanley
Software Engineer · Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom · 2024
2024
My Personal Trainer AI
Founder
Founder · 2023 – 2024
2023
EpicEats
CTO · Greater London · 2023
2023
MHouse
Software Engineer · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · 2022
2022

Bio

Ismaeel is co-founder and CEO of Expanse. Built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), beating every published baseline. Previously: ran large scale ML models at one of the world’s largest quantitative funds (QRT). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.