Roopak Nijhara
Co-Founder & CTO at Canvas AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRoopak Nijhara is a Co-Founder & CTO based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building and shipping production AI systems and data-driven products. He blends hands-on AI engineering and backend expertise—especially in Java and Python—with startup leadership, evolving from engineering roles to founding Canvas AI. His background includes an MTech in Data Science from IIT Hyderabad and a track record of driving technical teams at Parallel and Equal Experts to deliver scalable solutions. Known for bridging research and product, he focuses on turning ML prototypes into reliable production services and operational workflows. An operator-founder who still codes, he brings both the strategic vision to scale a platform and the implementation chops to execute it.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech Data Science, Master of Technology - MTech Data Science at Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadH.S.C., H.S.C. at St. Mary's Academy - SaharanpurBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Technology at Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur
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Github Skills (25)
event-sourcing9
bash9
ai9
nodejs9
cli9
rest-api8
serverless8
python8
api8
automation8
rest8
typescript8
golang8
docker7
spring-boot6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
canvasxai/sketch
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 PRs, 232 pushes in 5 months
rnijhara/ArticleWriter
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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