Pete Arvanitis
I build the whole stack — from the firmware on the board up through the cloud that ties a fleet of them together. The technical partner small companies and startups call to ship something new.
One person, every layer — no handoffs
The rare part: I take a concept from a bare board through firmware, app, and cloud to a shipping product. No translation gap between the hardware team and the software team, because they're the same person. The four layers below, owned end to end.
Hardware bring-up & production
Board-level mixed-signal work, sensor integration, and liaison with hardware firms and contract manufacturers through first production — including the regulatory paperwork when a device has to pass an audit.
Firmware & embedded
Embedded C/C++ on Microchip PIC, dsPIC, STM32, ESP32, and ARM. RTOS, bootloaders, USB and wireless stacks, sensor integration. Close to the metal, where timing is unforgiving.
Web & mobile front ends
React and React Native apps that put a usable face on the hardware — built by the same person who wrote the firmware underneath, so the seams line up.
Back end & device cloud
Java/Spring REST services and AWS infrastructure — IoT Core, Lambda, RDS — the plumbing that ties a fleet of devices to the people using them.
OhmIQ · embedded controls for ohmic heating
Came in as a consultant on the real-time control and embedded firmware for an ohmic heating platform, then joined full-time. Power, sensing, and the controls that keep the physical system stable.
Energy-monitoring startup · firmware to cloud
15+ years as the technical partner: embedded firmware on PIC, the wireless protocols, the AWS cloud platform, and the iOS/Android apps. First-generation device partner to Google PowerMeter.
Automation & controls company · technical lead
Fractional CTO for an eight-figure automation-controls firm. Owned the technical direction — including anti-skimmer / anti-tamper firmware in C on PIC24 that shipped through first production and deployed across major US banks.
Workers'-comp & placement platform
Built and ran the cloud platform — Java/Spring REST back end, web-components front end, AWS hosting — plus a work-from-home system pairing Android tablets with Asterisk/Flowroute telephony and MDM. Including the security and penetration testing.
Regulated device development
Embedded C++ on ARM for a sterilizer platform, the desktop and web tooling around it, and the full requirements, architecture, and test documentation for regulatory approval.
Cutting-edge before it was easy
Contracted to Sun Microsystems on early Java and the Electronic Commerce Framework; built one of the first wearable webcams (featured in Gourmet, named a Top 50 idea by Restaurant Business) and a long-range video system for a Navy research drone.
Available for contract and remote work.
I work with small companies and startups building something new — the ones who need one person who can take it from the board to the cloud, not a whole team with handoffs at every layer. Independent practice running continuously since 1997.