Adonai Garcia
“ Streets get safer when the people who use them every day have a reliable way to be heard, and when the authority can act on what they say without exposing anyone.
Background
Adonai Garcia is a Dominican civil engineer specializing in sustainable urban mobility, traffic engineering and city-scale technology. He combines more than nine years of public and private sector experience with graduate training at York University in Toronto and two master’s degrees in Spain, and has led ViaTechLabs since 2019. Viatic is the company’s Canada-first product, built from the ground up for Canadian privacy law and for municipalities that need evidence they can act on.
His career began at J.G. Cajiao & Associates, where he led the field surveys for the Dominican Republic’s first Sustainable Mobility Plan in Santiago de los Caballeros. At INTRANT, the Dominican transit authority, he led the optimization of all signalized intersections in Santo Domingo and other provinces, was part of the technical team behind the implementation of the city’s first official bicycle lane, and served as institutional spokesperson before the Senate, radio and television, translating technical projects into language residents could follow.
His graduate work at York University deepened his applied research practice: he received the 2024 Ron Rice Award for best paper at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum and chaired the university’s Institute of Transportation Engineers chapter. His thesis at ViaTechLabs is straightforward: change in urban mobility will not come from more bureaucracy or shelved studies. It comes from software built together with the people who experience the problem and the officials who have to solve it.
Areas of expertise
Education
- MASc · Civil Engineering
- MEng · Smart Mobility
- MEng · Drones in Engineering
- B.Eng. · Civil Engineering
Career milestones
- 2019 – presentFounder & CEOViaTechLabs
Builds urban mobility software with and for the community. Operates a citizen traffic-reporting platform in the Caribbean with 60,000+ community members and 6,800+ geolocated reports, and is bringing the same model to Canada with Viatic, redesigned for PIPEDA and for in-app enforcement by municipalities.
- 2026Transportation SpecialistProvince of Peravia Sustainable Mobility Plan · Dominican Republic
Province-wide mobility and road-safety diagnostic and six-year roadmap: GIS and accessibility analysis, road-network and bridge inventories, public and active transport, governance, and a 78-KPI monitoring framework.
- 2025 – 2026Road-safety researcherUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Driver mental workload and driving-error probability under alcohol exposure: simulator data from 36 drivers analysed with mixed-effects models, logistic regression and machine learning.
- 2025 – 2026Technology ManagerTrekt AI · Toronto
Led end-to-end development of an AI-powered analytics and automated trading platform: data pipelines for 500+ digital assets, machine-learning models, real-time signals, REST APIs and monitoring dashboards.
- 2021 – 2026MASc, Research and Teaching AssistantYork University · Lassonde · Toronto
Master’s in Civil Engineering. 2024 Ron Rice Award for best conference paper at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum. President of the York U ITE Chapter (2022–2023), recognized as ITE Canada Outstanding Chapter.
- 2022 – 2024Technology Team LeadSARIT Micromobility · Toronto
Built computer-vision pedestrian and obstacle detection systems, real-time fleet telemetry and energy-distribution solutions for urban electric vehicles.
- 2022 – 2024Program Assistant, Recreation Director and Co-Program DirectorShad Canada · York University Program · Toronto
Three successive roles in a month-long residential STEAM and entrepreneurship program for 64 high-school students and 16 staff: daily operations, workshops, logistics, guest speakers, student support and post-program reporting.
- 2022 – 2024Senior Research LeadBEST, Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology · York University
Planned and managed entrepreneurship and innovation programming, including UNHack (2022 to 2024) and the BEST Startup Experience (2023), with 700+ participants, faculty, alumni and external partners.
- 2019 – 2026Teaching Assistant, Road Design and Traffic EngineeringUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD)
Taught roadway design, AutoCAD Civil 3D and QGIS-based transportation demand modelling to 400+ civil engineering students: horizontal and vertical alignment, roadway geometry, transportation analysis and GIS workflows.
- 2017 – 2021Sustainable Mobility Technician & Road Safety AnalystINTRANT · Santo Domingo
Led the optimization of all signalized intersections in Santo Domingo and other provinces, was part of the technical team behind the implementation of the city’s first official bicycle lane, and represented the institute as spokesperson before the Senate, radio and television.
- 2016 – 2018Engineering ManagerJ.G. Cajiao & Associates · Santo Domingo
Led field surveys for the Dominican Republic’s first Sustainable Mobility Plan in Santiago: vehicular and pedestrian counts, 3,000+ household travel surveys and mitigation proposals. Project work across the Caribbean and South America.
Get in touch
For municipal pilots, partnerships, press inquiries or professional consultations, reach us at our institutional email.