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Saai Arora

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CTO/Co-founder at Replicas
📍 Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Saai Arora is the CTO and Co-founder of Replicas, a Y Combinator-backed startup. His background includes roles as a founding engineer and software engineering internships at Shopify and IBM. He studied Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Saai has a keen interest in writing about the intersection of AI and software development. He has recently authored articles discussing how AI agents create code, the concept of "bad code" in AI-generated software, and the challenges of acquiring a startups first users.

He made the difficult decision to step away from an Applied AI internship at Ramp just days before it started to co-found Replicas and join Y Combinator.

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Current Role
CTO/Co-founder
Location
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Autonomous Development
As the CTO of Replicas, he is focused on building background agents that can autonomously handle a company's product backlog, aiming to ship code without human intervention.
Early-Stage Growth
He writes about the challenges of acquiring a startup's first users, emphasizing that it's often a distribution and communication problem rather than a product problem.
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Career

Work history

5-2026
CTO/Co-founder
Replicas
1-2026 - 1-2026
Software Engineer Intern
Ramp
12-2025 - 5-2026
Founding Engineer
General Context
9-2025 - 12-2025
Software Engineer Intern
Shopify
1-2025 - 8-2025
Software Engineer Intern
IBM
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Education
9-2022 - 6-2027
Bachelor of computer science - BCS
University of Waterloo
9-2022 - 1-2026
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
Wilfrid Laurier University
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