Ari Zade (CTO)

Ari Zade is a software engineer, technical leader, and experience designer working across technology, education, and physical prototyping. He serves as Chief Technology Officer of the Reconciliation League, where he leads the organization’s technology strategy and the development of its digital infrastructure and platforms.

Ari has more than a decade of experience building digital products and leading technical initiatives across software engineering, product development, and technical program management. His work has included leading engineering teams, developing mobile and web applications, evaluating technical systems and vendors, and translating complex organizational goals into practical technology strategies.

He is also the founder of Desk Job Design Lab, a Brooklyn-based prototyping studio focused on helping people turn ideas into physical and digital objects. Through Desk Job, Ari works across electronics, fabrication, software, textiles, and product design, while developing and teaching hands-on creative workshops.

Ari holds a B.A. from Mills College and studied at New York University. His work is grounded in the idea that technology should function as infrastructure for human collaboration: understandable, adaptable, and designed around the people and institutions that use it.