Ruddra Kantaria

Computer science student at the University of Waterloo. Currently building Atelier, an AI product analytics start-up. Previously at Shopify, BlueDot, and ConneXU.

— Based in Toronto, Canada

Experience

Atelier·Co-Founder, Founding Engineer
Dec 2025 — Present
Co-founded an AI-driven product analytics start-up backed by Telora ($60K). Built an end-to-end ingestion pipeline and a LangChain-powered engine that turns analytics into deployable UI/UX changes.
Shopify·Software Engineering Intern
May 2026 — Sep 2026
Led a 100% uptime migration off legacy APIs, backfilling 5B+ rows. Designed Ruby on Rails GraphQL APIs powering cash management for 2M+ retailers, and shipped POS features in React Native + TypeScript.
BlueDot·Software Engineer (Intern → Part-time)
May 2025 — Nov 2025
Architected a Python + Azure ETL pipeline that cut ingestion time by 56% and saved $150K/year for epidemiologists. Improved data throughput by 50 GB/day and access latency by 71%.
Quetzal·Co-Founder
Aug 2023 — Aug 2025
Co-founded a quantum education start-up that taught 2,500+ students across 25+ countries, with partnerships at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute.
ConneXU·Software Engineering Intern
May 2024 — Sep 2024
Grew the user base by 500+ on a SaaS AI platform deployed to AWS ECS. Implemented Supabase RPC semantic search across 10K+ events and a Redis-backed map view that cut payload by 95%.