Arlen Abraham

Arlen Abraham is a technical leader and engineering generalist currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in guiding complex physical products from initial concept through commercialization, having held senior engineering roles at technology companies including Astranis, Pearl Automation, and Makani. During his tenure at Makani, an enterprise later acquired by Google X, he contributed to the development of airborne wind energy systems. His cross-disciplinary technical expertise spans the aerospace, consumer electronics, communications, and energy sectors, with a specific emphasis on hardware, software, and firmware integration. Abraham has consistently worked on highly complex, capital-intensive engineering projects, such as the design and deployment of geostationary communications satellites for the aerospace industry. His professional background centers on bridging the critical gap between physical engineering and software systems to scale deep tech and physics-based industrial applications.