Summary
Hari Saran is a Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft who leads Chat for the Teams Android app used by over 150 million people, combining production mobile engineering with a strong research background in computer vision and AR. He holds an MS from Boston University in Computer Engineering/Data Science and has nine years of experience building Android apps, full-stack systems, and cloud-backed services across companies like Verizon and in nonprofit projects. Hari has shipped polished mobile UIs and scalable features using Java, Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, and Python, and has practical ML/Deep Learning experience in pose estimation, image segmentation and 3D human mapping—including public demos like denseimage.com and several GAN-based apparel/translation projects. He also publishes web tools and small products (e.g., uscovid19.info, stockpredict.tech, happymemes.fun) from his GitHub, showing a blend of product-focused delivery and experimental CV research. Notably, he presents his work publicly (AWS Loft, Grubhub NYC) and builds onnx/.onxx-compatible models and Lens Studio integrations, bridging academic techniques and user-facing AR features.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 7.6, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 7.6 at Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management (GITAM) University, Visakhapatnam
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.29, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.29 at Boston University
English, Hindi, Telugu