Who We Are
At Arira, we’re not just another engineering company— we’re the team to call when the project needs a little more thinking behind it. With expertise spanning both circuit board design and full system-level development, we’ve built a reputation for taking ambitious ideas and figuring out how to make them happen.
Who we work with
Adaptability is just one of the strengths we bring to every project. Whether startups or global organizations, our clients rely on our hands-on approach to keep product development moving forward. Our favorite projects are the ones with a few challenges built in. Keeps things interesting.
How we work
Great products are the result of close collaboration across disciplines. We work alongside our clients and, when necessary, our close partner network to ensure the completed design is optimized for the product requirements. On every project, we strive to provide outcomes that exceed expectations.
Meet the Team
Craig has been working in the design services industry for more than 25 years, as a design engineer, product architect, and program manager. During this time, he has led a vast range of projects and product types. Craig has been involved in the development of systems and cards for several companies including Altera, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper, Network Appliances, Sun Microsystems, and numerous start-ups.
Special areas of focus:
Communication Systems Multimedia Platforms Product Management
Tom got his start designing laptop computer systems for Hewlett Packard’s Mobile Computing Division and has since compiled more than 25 years of design experience to a large variety of clients. Tom previously worked as a design engineer and product architect, where he performed on a wide variety of projects ranging from mobile handheld products to large telecom communications systems.
Special areas of focus:
Racked System Design Low Power Design
Atsushi has 25+ years of experience in the design, development, testing, and production release of a wide range of system- and board-level products, such as: Intel/AMD/PowerPC/MIPS/ARM-based motherboards; FPGA-based test and production platforms; electrical/optical networking line cards, switch fabrics, and routers; storage servers; and multimedia set top boxes. In addition to seamlessly working with MCAD, software, manufacturing, and project management teams, he has shown his versatility in leading the ground-up development and sustaining support of a company-wide CAD library infrastructure for 100+ users.
James has been designing boards and systems for over 25 years. He has worked on all stages of product development, from initial architectural planning to design capture and implementation, bring-up, validation test & debug, and longevity and failure analysis. Past design work includes products such as M-series SPARC servers, set top boxes, ASIC emulation system, and reference designs for video acquisition hardware. While at Arira, James has been the lead developer on products as small and efficient as a battery operated office management platform and as large and robust as avionics systems.
Fang has 10+ years of experience in system-level design, which includes circuit design, system bring-up, integration, and debugging. Before Arira, Fang worked as a systems R&D engineer in the Telecom field. She was responsible for system design and hardware/firmware implementation based on DSP. In addition to design work, Fang works as a component engineer, building parts and managing parts databases for the team. She also spends time writing Python scripts for validation testing.
Wendy has over 5 years of experience in digital marketing and social media marketing. She was the former Social Media Director at Access Magazine in San Jose, CA.
Ryan has experience in robotics, MEMS design, circuit design, and hardware system integration.
Yamei has experience in EV charging systems, circuit design, and has a background in the automotive industry.
You can also find her contribution in "Improving Vehicle Navigation by a Heading-enabled ACO Approach", World Automation Congress 2016.