Summary
Dhananjai Hariharan is a Product Team Lead and creative technologist with 12 years’ experience blending UX research, interaction design, and hands-on development to take products from concept through implementation. Based in New Jersey, he leads mobile app development, signal processing and firmware prototyping at LifeLens Technologies while driving usability-focused R&D and data-driven feature decisions. His background includes NSF-funded accessibility research at RIT’s LATLab—running eye-tracking studies and publishing work on assistive technologies—which informs a user-centered approach to solving complex problems. He has practical experience building real-time visualizations and sensor-driven prototypes for Autodesk and rapid Android prototyping early in his career, reflecting a comfort across web, mobile and embedded stacks. Known for pairing creative design sensibilities with algorithmic and data analysis skills, he often bridges the gap between research insights and production-ready engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
The New School
English