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Aspiring Product Manager and Tech Enthusiast

I’m a freshman at NYU studying Computer Science, eager to build skills in product management and user experience design.

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Dive into my work, including hands-on projects focusing on product management and user experience design, aimed at enhancing user engagement.

  • BeReal Product Management Externship
    BeReal Product Management Externship
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    BeReal. · Aug 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    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
  • Vita — Your AI Health Companion
    Vita — Your AI Health Companion
    Vita — Your AI Health Companion

    Built the medication-tracking and reminder engine; tested with 15 beta users, cutting reported missed-dose incidents by half in a 2-week pilot.

About me

I’m a freshman at NYU studying Computer Science, eager to build skills in product management and user experience design.

I am a freshman at New York University pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. With a strong interest in product management and UX strategy, I'm excited to develop my technical skills and discover how to create meaningful user experiences.

Externships

BeReal Product Management Externship

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Experience

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Columbia University, Weng Lab · Feb 2026 – Present

Learning Management System Student Specialist

New York University · Aug 2026 – Present

Brand Strategy & Content Extern

TikTok · Aug 2026 – Present

Product Management Extern

BeReal · Jun 2026– Aug 2026

Insight Week Participant

Procter & Gamble (P&G) · Nov 2025 – Jun 2026

Education

New York University (NYU), College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Minor in Business and Psychology · Class of 2029

International School of Milan

International Baccalaureate

Skills

Product ManagementUX StrategySocial Media InnovationUser Engagement AnalysisCompetitor Benchmarking
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BeReal. · Aug 2026 ↗

✅ Verified by Extern

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 analyzed BeReal-style social product design and user engagement. Work mapped a five-stage end-to-end user journey with behaviors, pain points, and moments of delight; benchmarked competitor features against retention and engagement; and produced a PRD-lite plus an interactive prototype for a lightweight Prompt of the Day feature.

BeReal Product Management Externship
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What I've accomplished

I mapped a five-stage user journey, linked competitor features to retention and engagement, authored a PRD-lite for a Prompt of the Day, built an interactive prototype, and moderated a 35-minute focus group that produced qualitative preferences on optional social prompts.

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Vita — Your AI Health Companion

Built the medication-tracking and reminder engine; tested with 15 beta users, cutting reported missed-dose incidents by half in a 2-week pilot.

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Vita — Your AI Health Companion
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Kin — Your People Wherever They Are

Cross-platform app for families and close friends across the world, combining a living map, shared memory shelf, family recipes, mood journal, postcard sender, and a “good time to call” window.

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Kin — Your People Wherever They Are
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Local File Search Engine

Desktop AI-powered search engine with full-text indexing, semantic retrieval, OCR support, live folder watching, and analytics, built with a Java Swing GUI.

JavaJava Swing
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