About Us
About Fixstars
Fixstars Solutions is a software development company that is devoted to our slogan: "Speed up your Business." Our goal is to optimize and accelerate software for businesses, universities, biologists, military technology and more. We use software parallelization, multi-core processors, and application acceleration to optimize your software and help you save time, money and effort in the process. Our engineers can help your company accomplish its goals, as we can assess and fix any and all performance issues within your software. We have served hundreds of companies, and we look forward to serving many more.
Fixstars Solutions is based out of Irvine, CA, and our customers include Boeing Commercial and Defense, Lockheed Martin, US Air Force, US Army, and US Navy, Argonne National Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, UCI, USC, Kioxia, Sony, and Toshiba.
Team
Masana Murase
CEO
As Fixstars Solutions' Chief Executive Officer, Masana is responsible for overseeing the planning, strategy, and execution of the company's sales and revenue growth in North America. Since joining Fixstars in 2012, he has put tremendous effort into promoting multi-core processors through his research and lecture activities. Prior to joining Fixstars, Masana worked as Staff Researcher for IBM Research where he was involved in Cell/B.E. security and high performance computing research projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Governance (Cyber Informatics program) from Keio University.
Takuro Iizuka
CTO
Takuro is the CTO and leads the development team at Fixstars Solutions. He is an expert in designing high performance system architecture, building low layer program on InfiniBand, GPU, FPGA, various AI accelerators and SoCs. He loves his family and exercise!
Sonali Waghmare
Software Engineer
Sonali is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions. She is working on a software acceleration project in schedulers and some image processing.
Israel Imru
Software Engineer
Israel is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions. He primaly handles tasks related to frontend engineering, but will occasionally tackle tasks beyond that. He enjoys typical nerd stuff, such as video games, reading, reading, watching sports, etc.
Samuel Wang
Software Engineer
Samuel Wang is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions, who specializes in Frontend Engineering but also assists with Backend. He enjoys creating web and mobile applications. His hobbies include playing various games, cooking and traveling.
Momoko Kono
Associate Manager, Software Engineering
Momoko is an Associate Manager of Software Engineering at Fixstars Solutions. She is engaged in a software acceleration project of data transfer and image processing.
Owen Stampflee
Senior Software Engineer
Owen is an Senior Software Engineer who has taken various roles within Fixstars since 2008. His primary focus currently is on big (and small) data related projects including streaming, API services, visualization and analysis using traditional statistical methods as well as machine learning. He is ardent user of vi.
Shea Sanderson
Advisory Software Engineer
Shea is a Computer Engineer who has been with Fixstars since 2014. He serves in multiple fields within software engineering, but specializes in lower-level hardware interfacing and backend systems. When he is not playing video games in his free time, he enjoys learning about new technologies.
Robert Prior
Software Engineer
Robert is a Software Engineer who has worked at Fixstars since 2018. He serves in various roles, but primarily works on data processing and machine learning. He enjoys video games and makes really good chocolate truffles.
Andy Duong
Software Engineer
Andy is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions. His focus is currently on backend engineering and cloud computing, but he is also experienced with parallel processing for performance optimization. During his free time, he enjoys playing video games and spending time outdoors.
Richard Gao
Software Engineer
Richard is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions and he specializes in software acceleration frameworks, especially in image processing. In his free time, he likes to go to the gym and play video games.
Masaru Ito
Advisory Software Engineer
Masaru is a Advisory Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions. He works on software acceleration projects, and utilizes parallel programming. In his free time, he likes to watch anime and Japanese YouTubers.
Xinyu Li
Software Engineer
Xinyu is a Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions, specializing in AI, particularly large language models, and software development. She is currently working on an AI-powered Slack bot. In her free time, Xinyu enjoys watching movies and playing video games.
Ryan Pettibone
Software Engineer
Ryan Pettibone is a C/C++/Rust Engineer at Fixstars. He has degrees in computer science, physics, and mathematics, and is excited to bring his unique background to bear on complex engineering challenges. He is thrilled to be working at Fixstars after a number of years as an educator. Outside of work, Ryan enjoys rock climbing, marathon running, and continually learning new things.
Aaron Chang
Software Engineer
Aaron Chang is a software engineer at Fixstars. He specializes in embedded system programming. For his interests outside of work, he likes video games as well as playing piano and guitar.
Justin Collier
Software Engineer
Justin is a software engineer at Fixstars Solutions that specializes in C++ optimization. As a programming language and FOSS enthusiast, Justin spends most of their free time in a Linux VT console writing libraries and configuring systems, and is fascinated with compiletime computation, static testing, zero-cost abstractions, and template meta-programming. Outside of development, Justin enjoys e-biking, onewheeling, hiking, camping, and electronic music.
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