Aravind Nayani is a highly experienced and customer-focused Product Evangelist with expertise in building hardware and software for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. He has a deep understanding of hardware development, integrations, manufacturing, and validation. Aravind specializes in designing and testing hardware systems, transitioning through various design phases into manufacturing. He has led teams to build and mass-manufacture hardware for motion control of power lift gate application in automotive and industrial domains, significantly reducing development time and costs. With experience in driving design cycles from initial ideation to manufacturing and commercial availability, and requisite testing, safety, diagnostics, and compliance certifications, Aravind is well-versed in analog, digital, sensor interfacing, MCU/SoC design, power management, battery integration, wireless (BLE, WiFi), schematic capture, pcb layout analysis, BOM selection and optimization, EMI/EMC, signal integrity, power integrity, and high-speed design. He has a background in failure, root cause analysis, performance tuning, battery optimizations, EMI/EMC compliance, risk mitigation & safety critical design, and experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to design, integrate, and test. Aravind has worked in consumer electronics, automotive, and medical domains. He studied at San Jose State and Stanford University.