Team

Engineering leadership, matched to the problem.

Specialists in medical technology, reliability, test, systems and software, with more than 70 years of combined experience.

  • Mitra Soltani

    Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

    Mitra is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Blue Sky Consulting Firm, and a medical device engineering leader with 25 years of engineering experience, more than 17 of them in medical technology.

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    Her career runs from electrical design and R&D leadership on medical imaging systems to reliability and test leadership on surgical robotics. She has taken more than seven products through the full commercial lifecycle, and her electrical designs are inside commercial medical devices. Her expertise covers reliability engineering, manufacturing test architecture, design for testability, and system- and subsystem-level verification, with a focus on new product introduction. She is an inventor on three inventions, a conference speaker, a writer on AI in medical device engineering and patient safety, and a former judge at the International Kharazmi Festival.

  • Amin Soltani

    Director of Software, Cloud & AI Systems

    Amin leads software, cloud and AI systems at Blue Sky Consulting Firm, with 10 years of experience in software architecture, AWS cloud infrastructure, scalable platforms, data management, platform integration and automated test frameworks.

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    Directs the software, data and automation infrastructure behind AI-assisted engineering workflows.

  • Scott Thompson

    Director of Systems Engineering & Test Automation

    Scott leads systems engineering and test automation, drawing on decades of building complex systems: space science instrumentation and satellite harnessing, verification and validation test systems, massively parallel VHDL testing, factory and vacuum-chamber automation, and embedded hardware and software.

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    Also designs engineering labs, from ESD-safe electronics labs to clean rooms.

  • Eyal Hinkis

    Director of Reliability Engineering

    Eyal leads reliability engineering, with 25 years of experience in reliability assessment, failure-risk evaluation and reliability strategy.

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    Directs the reliability side of our assessments.

  • Faezeh (Fae) Shanehsazzadeh

    Director of R&D & Applied Machine Learning

    Fae leads R&D and applied machine learning, with expertise in medical devices, sensor systems, wearables, system integration, product development and applied machine learning.

  • Siamak Moori

    Director of R&D & Systems Engineering

    Siamak leads R&D and systems engineering, with experience across systems engineering, digital hardware design, technical leadership, and electronic and industrial automation design.

Disciplines across the team

  • Reliability engineering
  • Manufacturing test
  • Design for testability
  • Systems engineering
  • Electrical R&D
  • Instrumentation & test automation
  • Sensors & wearables
  • Applied machine learning
  • Software, cloud & AI systems

Team bios describe each person's individual professional experience and do not represent or imply endorsement by any current or former employer.

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