Summary
Arun Pingali is a product manager in San Diego with a decade of experience spanning biomedical engineering, test automation, and software testing. He transitioned from building lab automation and qPCR robotics and data pipelines to testing complex infotainment systems at Tesla, and now drives product at Meld, combining deep technical fluency with user-focused product delivery. Arun's background includes hands-on automation in Python, Java, and Ruby, CI/CD and BDD/TDD practices, and front-end/database work—skills he leverages to bridge engineers and stakeholders. Notably, he has designed end-to-end lab software (robot code, UI, PostgreSQL) and shipped UI and automation features in regulated environments, giving him an uncommon blend of hardware, biotech, and consumer software experience. Collected across startups and large employers, his portfolio demonstrates an ability to move from prototypes to production while maintaining quality and reproducibility.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Major: Bioengineering (Emphasis: Medical Devices). Minor: Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Major: Bioengineering (Emphasis: Medical Devices). Minor: Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley