I’m Vinam. I turn ideas into software, and software into businesses.

I’m Vinam Tuteja, a software engineer and entrepreneur. For more than a decade I’ve been building software on two tracks: engineering for great teams, and building companies of my own.

It started in university, when I co-founded Health in Time, a web app that tackled the long waits patients face in emergency rooms. It didn’t survive, but it taught me more than any classroom could: how to build something from nothing, pitch it and learn from failure. It also got me hooked on building.

From there I went deep on engineering, with internships at Absolute Software and Ciena, then as a software engineer at Best Buy Canada, working on one of the country’s biggest retail platforms. Today I’m a software engineer at JobGet, building product that helps hourly workers find jobs.

In 2020 I started taking on freelance projects for local businesses. That work grew into Vinara Software Co., my software company. Through Vinara Studio, I give small businesses and organizations a professionally built website, hosting, lead capture and ongoing support on one simple monthly plan, for clients like QuickVisa Immigration and the Conservative Party of Surrey. Vinara also builds its own self-serve products: CanadaJobLeads, a network of five community job boards, and TixTally, a self-serve ticketing platform, with Recipocket on the way.

Outside of code, I’m an avid reader and traveller. Books and new places are where most of my best ideas come from.