# Burak Yenier

> Burak Yenier is the co-founder and CEO of Simr, formerly UberCloud, where he is applying lessons from high-availability financial software to the operational bottlenecks surrounding engineering simulation. He co-created the UberCloud Experiment with Wolfgang Gentzsch in 2012, built a company around the patterns that emerged from hundreds of cloud experiments, and now argues that simulation data and workflows need the same disciplined automation that DevOps brought to software.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Simr
- **Organizations:** Simr (formerly UberCloud), CashEdge, Fiserv, Quippe, Sevant
- **Education:** BS, Industrial Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, MBA, Koç University
- **Known for:** Co-created the UberCloud Experiment, a collaborative program that documented barriers to cloud adoption for engineering and scientific workloads., Co-founded and leads Simr, formerly UberCloud., Helped translate lessons from 230 publicly described cloud experiments into HPC container technology and the SimOps operating framework.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2012** — Worked in software development and operations, including roles at Quippe and Sevant, and later led data-center and digital-payment operations at CashEdge, which became part of Fiserv.
- **2012** — Co-created the UberCloud Experiment with Wolfgang Gentzsch to test cloud computing for demanding technical and engineering workloads.
- **2013** — Co-founded the company that became UberCloud and later Simr, building on the experiment’s findings.
- **2013** — Presented the UberCloud HPC Experiment at the HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference.
- **2019** — Co-authored work on Kubernetes, containers, HPC, and AI with Daniel Gruber and Wolfgang Gentzsch.
- **2024-05** — Led UberCloud’s rebrand to Simr and announced a $20 million Series A led by Uncorrelated Ventures, with BMW i Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital participating.
- **2024-08** — Joined Simr board member Peter Ungaro and OrionX’s Shahin Khan for a podcast discussion of SimOps.
- **2026-05** — Co-hosted an Engineering AI gathering in Los Gatos focused on operational readiness in hardware design and simulation.

## Achievements

- Co-created the UberCloud Experiment, a collaborative program that documented barriers to cloud adoption for engineering and scientific workloads.
- Co-founded and leads Simr, formerly UberCloud.
- Helped translate lessons from 230 publicly described cloud experiments into HPC container technology and the SimOps operating framework.
- Led the company through a 2024 rebrand and a $20 million Series A financing.
- Published and presented on cloud HPC, engineering simulation, software containers, Kubernetes, and simulation data operations.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Co-hosted an Engineering AI event in Los Gatos on operational readiness in hardware design and simulation.
- **2024-08** — Appeared on the OrionX Download podcast with Peter Ungaro to discuss SimOps.
- **2024-05** — Announced the UberCloud-to-Simr rebrand, the SimOps framework, and a $20 million Series A.

## Links

- Website: https://simr.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/buraky
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/BurakYenier

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Last updated: 2026-08-18