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Senior Computer Science student at NJIT

Im a fourth-year CS student focused on learning practical software and systems skills as I prepare to launch my career.

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Work samples

A selection of academic projects and personal work that demonstrate programming, algorithms, and system-design skills developed during my CS degree.

  • QuietAid 6 Privacy-Preserving Scholarship Platform | Devpost MLH Midnight Hackathon, August 2026
    QuietAid 6 Privacy-Preserving Scholarship Platform | Devpost MLH Midnight Hackathon, August 2026

    Collaborated with a hackathon team to redesign an existing scholarship platform around the challenge of verifying student eligibility without exposing sensitive information. Helped define user flows for scholarship matching, pseudonymous applications, and selective disclosure of student information. Supported implementation and testing across the React, Node.js, and MongoDB application.

    ReactNode.jsMongoDBMidnight
  • BeReal Product Management Externship
    BeReal Product Management Externship
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    BeReal. · ✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

    BeReal Product Management Externship

    Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

    DesignUI/UXProduct Management

About me

Im a fourth-year CS student focused on learning practical software and systems skills as I prepare to launch my career.

I am Deekshitha Oku, a senior Computer Science student at New Jersey Institute of Technology pursuing a Bachelors degree. I have limited professional experience and am preparing to start my career, building technical skills and project work during my studies.

Externships

BeReal Product Management Externship

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Experience

President 6 Kids Who Code

New Jersey Institute of Technology · May 2024 6 Present

Web Developer

SciQuel · June 2026 6 Present

Research Assistant 6 Virtual and Augmented Interfaces

NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing · September 2024 6 December 2025

Co-Manager 6 MPTC Mentorship Program, NJIT Robotics Club

New Jersey Institute of Technology · June 2025 6 Present

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

B.S. Computer Science | Minor: Design of the User Experience | GPA: 3.3/4.0

Skills

Computer Science fundamentalsProgramming (academic coursework)Algorithms and data structuresProblem solvingSoftware and systems concepts
Back to work

QuietAid 6 Privacy-Preserving Scholarship Platform | Devpost MLH Midnight Hackathon, August 2026

Collaborated with a hackathon team to redesign an existing scholarship platform around the challenge of verifying student eligibility without exposing sensitive information. Helped define user flows for scholarship matching, pseudonymous applications, and selective disclosure of student information. Supported implementation and testing across the React, Node.js, and MongoDB application.

ReactNode.jsMongoDBMidnight
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✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

BeReal Product Management Externship

Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

DesignUI/UXProduct Management

Overview

The externship examined how product teams at social apps reconcile authentic user experiences with mechanisms that drive growth. Work included competitor benchmarking, feature-level engagement analysis, and the design of a growth-focused app feature. The project culminated in a proposed feature concept and supporting analysis.

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I audited competitor behavior, compared engagement patterns across apps, and designed a feature concept that translated those observations into a concrete product proposal.

Project breakdown

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