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Dr. Davis Darvish

Applied Physicist & Systems Engineer

Founder of D613 Labs & Breakthrough Materials and Technology. Combining solid-state physics, nanotechnology research, enterprise IT network scaling, and advanced software development.

Experience Timeline

Managing Principal Consultant

2016 - Present

Breakthrough Materials and Technology

Directing corporate IT strategy, network design, device lifecycle management, and systems engineering for high-growth start-ups and engineering-heavy technology clients. Act as virtual IT department and R&D consultancy lead.

Manager of Information Technology and Tech Ops

2022 - 2024

Octane Lending

Spearheaded enterprise MDM implementation and helpdesk automations. Managed tech ops for multiple high-traffic e-commerce systems, scaling network operations, and zero-trust policies.

IT Director

2020 - 2022

Sensei Wellness Holdings

Led digital modernization for Sensei.com and online resort systems. Standardized infrastructure across multiple wellness retreats, optimized cloud and vendor SaaS budgets, and engineered security compliance models.

Rotations in Research and Engineering

2013 - 2016

Intel Corporation

Research Scientist at Intel Labs developing sensor data systems and thermoelectric cooling solutions. Process Technology Development Engineer at Technology & Manufacturing Group operating and maximizing ASM Eagle 12 PECVD tool availability for 14nm and 10nm nodes.

Graduate Researcher

2006 - 2012

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Researched earth-abundant materials and epitaxial thin-film heterostructures for photodetectors and photovoltaic cells. Achieved world record open-circuit voltage for cuprous oxide solar cells.

Academic History

Ph.D. – Applied Physics and Materials Science

2012

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

GPA: 3.75 | Specialized in thin films, vacuum science, and solar cells.

M.S. – Applied Physics and Materials Science

2008

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

GPA: 3.75 | Core study in solid-state physics and thermodynamics.

B.S. – Materials Science & Engineering & Electrical Engineering

2006

University of California, Berkeley

Major GPA: 3.6 | Dual engineering curriculum.

Technical Core

Infrastructure & Network

IT Strategy, Unifi Enterprise Networks, AV Systems, Cloud Asset Management, and Site IT Operations.

MDM & IT Automation

Kandji, Microsoft Intune MDM, SSO workflows, automated onboarding pipelines, and JIRA service integrations.

Zero-Trust & Identity

Active Directory, Kerberos authentication, SAML/OAuth SSO identity configurations, and endpoint vulnerability compliance.

Physical Sciences

Materials Science, thin-film semiconductor diagnostics, failure analysis, metallurgy, and vacuum physics.

Select Publications & Patents

Book (2024)

A Journey Through The Magical World of Physics: Eli Element Presents: You Little STEM Genius Series

First edition | Published by D3 Publishing House

Patent

Microelectronic Structures Including Cuprous Oxide Semiconductors and Having Improved P-N Heterojunctions

PCT/US2011/053814 | WO2012/04472

IEEE CPMT 2015

Systemic Optimization of On-chip Thermoelectric Cooling

Published/presented in Kyoto, Japan

Journal of Photovoltaics (2012)

Band Transport Model for ZnO/Cu2O Solar Cells

Special's Review, October 2012

Journal of Crystal Growth (2011)

Epitaxial Growth of Cu2O and ZnO/Cu2O Thin Films on MgO by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Volume 319, Issue 1, Pages 39-43

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