Full portfolio in development

Engineering leadership Robotics Energy systems

Building intelligent systems for a safer, more productive world.

I’m Allay Desai — a software development director bringing people, software and hardware together to deliver autonomous products and mission-critical industrial systems.

Based in the Toronto area, Canada allaydesai@gmail.com

  • Autonomous systems
    & robotics
  • Energy & real-time
    control
  • Industrial automation
    & AI
  • Engineering
    leadership
Portrait of Allay Desai
Toronto area, Canada

About

I build software that runs in the physical world.

For more than ten years I’ve worked where code meets hardware: industrial automation, autonomous robotics and utility-scale energy storage. Today I’m Software Development Director at EQS Inc., a Canadian Solar company. I joined as a founding hire and built the engineering team behind its real-time controllers, backend platforms, edge and cloud infrastructure, and UI.

I grew up in Kuwait, moved to the US for university and started my career there, then came to Canada to join Avidbots. Today I live in the Toronto area. I come from four generations of engineers, so building has always been how I solve problems. Away from work I’m usually playing guitar or wiring up another Raspberry Pi at home.

  • 0 → 16Engineering team built from scratch
  • DirectorSoftware Development, EQS Inc.
  • US 10,934,101Granted patent; a second filed in 2026
  • NYU · SUNY BuffaloM.S. & B.S. Electrical Engineering