About ARW
ARW is an employee-owned, privately-held technology firm that builds connected applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and other smartphones. From mission-critical applications in enterprise data centers to push notifications and data synchronization over secure channels to next-generation smartphones, ARW designs and delivers some of the most sophisticated connected smartphone applications in the industry today.
We offer a complete library of reusable components that work together to standardize application development across a multitude of smartphone operating systems, 3G/2G/WiFi networks, security and authentication mechanisms, proprietary push notification mechanisms, and enterprise applications frameworks.
ARW cultivates a collaborative, innovative and delivery-focused culture that enable its clients to realize new business opportunities, effect positive change in their markets, gain competitive advantage and increase business performance and profitability. We value intelligent, experienced, and personable engineering professionals that work with clients as partners.
Management Team
Shaibal Roy
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Applied Research Works is Shaibal’s third start-up. Shaibal has worked on databases and messaging systems at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bell Labs, Sybase, Netscape, Charles Schwab and RIM/BlackBerry. He led the engineering teams at two venture-funded start-ups, the first acquired by Netscape and the second by RIM.
RIM acquired the start-up he co-founded because it extended the BlackBerry email service to consumer email systems. As the Chief Architect at RIM 2002-2006, Shaibal spearheaded the growth of BlackBerry's consumer email services from 400,000 to 14 million handsets. Today that technology is used in over 40 million BlackBerries. As an engineer, Shaibal enjoys building scalable and reliable systems. Some iPhone and Android apps blame 3G networks for their sluggishness. Shaibal does not buy that excuse. He believes that apps should be designed from ground up to work with unreliable networks and account for roaming costs.
As the CEO at ARW, Shaibal is committed to building partnerships and customer relationships that are based on shared goals and long-term vision. He is passionate about the use of information technology in participatory medicine, where patients have an empowered role, and works closely with health care experts in using smartphone technology to improve the communication between doctors, patients, and caregivers.
Shaibal graduated as the Silver Medalist in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Yin Ling Leung
Founder and Vice President of Business Development
Yin is in charge of developing new partnerships and alliances for ARW with a sharp focus on the health sector. She brings over 20 years of community health education and organizing work to ARW. Also, start-up culture runs deep in Yin’s background. From the time she started her own paper route at age 10 to the family restaurant that she worked at afterschool and weekends from the time she was 13, she has thrived on creating things that never existed before. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Stanford University’s School of Education. After training and working as a teacher and community organizer, Yin started and nurtured a variety of social sector organizations in Hawaii, the Bay Area, the Puget Sound, and Kolkata, India. They involved some combination of community and environmental health, immigrants and refugees, and women and girls. She became a consultant and strategist with the organizations that funded her work, including the Ms. Foundation for Women, Ford, New World, Women’s Funding Alliance, and Social Justice Fund Northwest. Never in her life did she think she would work for a technology company. But her best friend and spouse convinced her that there just might be some interesting things that they could do together and so she decided to work with him to co-found ARW. Yin thrives on work that democratizes information and brings people together for a greater good. She brings that enthusiasm and commitment to ARW’s first product, ZipHealth, a patient-facing health application to connect doctors, patients and caregivers. Yin envisions that ZipHealth is one solution to ensuring that vital health data is both literally and figuratively in the hands of all patients, anytime, anywhere.
