An educator who knows what technology should actually do.
Ruquia Shah is CEO and 100% owner of Softvorx Inc.. She brings 27 years across public, private, charter, and faith-based K-12 schools, and she still teaches, which gives the product daily field research from real classrooms.
Not a tech founder who consulted with educators. An educator who understands what technology should actually do for the profession.
She built the first version herself. Personally built and piloted an AI-powered documentation system at a K-12 campus, using a Google Docs workflow with AI populating records from teacher inputs. Managed the full lifecycle, including Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance and classroom validation. That pilot became the foundation for Softvorx’s platform architecture.
Partnerships. Built partnerships between school districts and Texas A&M, Texas Instruments, and SMU, covering grants, curriculum resources, and stakeholder training.
Speaking. Co-presented “AI for Job Search” at the Frontiers of Flight Museum (October 2024) with Executives in Transition.
On the record.
Twenty-seven years of K-12 work, stated in the plain terms a contracting officer or a principal would use.
- Experience
- 27 years in K-12 education
- Public, private, charter, and faith-based schools; special education, science leadership, accreditation, and testing committees.
- Awards
- Beal Bank Teacher of the Year
- Top Teacher Award, 2014 Dallas Regional Science Fair (Maxim Integrated Award)
- Coached students to top placements in Private School Interscholastic Association (PSIA) Academic Competitions
From special recreation counselor to CEO.
- 1999Special Recreation Counselor, Maine-Niles Association of Special Recreation (M-NASR)
- 1999–2003President, Council for Exceptional Children at Niles West High School, coordinating volunteer support and community outreach for Julia S. Molloy Education Center students transitioning to Niles West
- CareerHead of Science for private school districts (three times)
- CareerDallas Regional Science Fair Coordinator
- CareerScience Director representing districts on Regional Science and Innovation Regional Councils (SRC/IRC)
- CareerSchool committees: Campus Improvement Plan, STARS accreditation team, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Committee, Principals Committee, Admissions and Testing Committee
- 2023–presentSubstitute teaching, which provides daily field research across K-12 classrooms
- Dec 2025–presentCEO and 100% owner, Softvorx Inc.
Education, languages, strengths.
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
- Research Assistant to Dr. James Pellegrino, cognitive psychology
- Research Assistant, International Engineering Consortium (IEC)
- Languages
- Native English and Urdu. Elementary conversational German. Basic Arabic reading.
- Strengths
- CliftonStrengths
- AchieverIdeationArrangerLearnerIndividualization
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Ruquia writes about teaching, documentation, and what AI should and should not do in a classroom.