Blair Halenda
Chief Technology Officer at Una AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Halenda is a startup-minded technology leader and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building hardware-enabled cloud systems and consumer-facing products. He co-founded U-Rite and led engineering teams at Una AI, progressing from Head of Engineering to Chief Technology Officer while focusing on practical AI and scalable cloud architectures. Blair combines mechanical engineering training with full-stack software and embedded systems expertise—having designed IoT hardware, Android and Windows apps, React dashboards, and serverless analytics on AWS. He has a track record of piloting solutions with enterprise partners (including a Microsoft/Best Buy Xbox display project) and translating ambiguous product needs into fielded systems. Known for whole-brain problem solving, he blends circuit design and firmware work with backend engineering and product communication. Based in Old Toronto, he brings entrepreneurial grit and cross-disciplinary fluency to fast-moving startups.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University
Github Skills (2)
microsoft-edge7
microsoft3
Github contributions (5)
blair-halenda/ue-audio-switcher
May 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 11 months
blairallday/EagleLibraries
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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