Ethen Dhanaraj

I'm an Electrical Engineering student at UC Santa Cruz with a focus on building systems that sit at the boundary of hardware and software. My coursework and hands-on work span embedded systems, high voltage electronics, machine learning, and full-stack development, and I'm most engaged when a project requires thinking across all of those layers at once.

On the hardware side, I work with Formula Slug's electric vehicle team doing PCB layout, high voltage interlock design, and battery pack assembly. On the software and AI side, I interned at Ushur building AI-powered automation workflows for enterprise clients in healthcare and finance, and recently built ChainPilot, a multi-agent supply chain decision framework, in 24 hours at a hackathon.

Outside of technical work, I serve as Vice President of Professional Development for Alpha Kappa Psi, where I founded Alpha Technologies, an internal organization focused on growing the technical skills of chapter members. I also work with nonprofits through 180 Degrees Consulting, helping organizations identify operational gaps and build actionable strategies.

I believe the strongest engineers are ones who can go deep on a technical problem and still communicate clearly, lead a team, and deliver something real. That is the standard I hold myself to.