Summary
Rishi Kapadia is a UI/UX designer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience bridging product, engineering, and business needs, currently designing at Teranet in Toronto. With a Computer Engineering degree from Waterloo and roots in embedded and firmware work (NVIDIA, AMD, IoT startups), he pairs deep technical fluency with polished interaction design. At General Motors he shipped vehicle-to-mobile camera features used by millions, navigating privacy, safety, and cross-team complexity while improving comprehension and developer handoff. As a founder he built Avra Labs’ eye-tracking accessibility tool (open-source) and launched Milna Events—a matchmaking product that validated demand, delivered a 10% landing-page conversion, and scaled pilot events via organic growth. He’s known for turning research into practical systems: reusable terms-acceptance frameworks, design systems based on Material UI, and automation that speeds engineering integration. Ready for roles that require both strategic product thinking and hands-on execution, he excels at making complex systems feel obvious to users.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French