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INTRO

Hey, I’m Dara Afraz. I’m a Senior Product Manager of Platform Services at Beyond Limits: Industrial Enterprise AI, a series-C startup (est. 2014, HC 350+), spun out of NASA tech. My background includes multidisciplinary design, web development, and involvement in cognitive science research.







PM & STRATEGY

Product Roadmapping
Prioritization, Work Slicing
Product Comms
Cross-functional Alignment
Customer-Centricity
OKRs & Success Metrics
Discovery Workshops
Roadmapping
Backlog Grooming
Sprint Planning
Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Jira, Confluence, BitBucket



TECHNICAL & TOOLS

System Thinking
Technical Decision-Making Fluency
Documentation & Diagrams
API Design Literacy
Data Flow & Integration Awareness
Front-End Fundamentals
Git & Version Control
Scrum, Jira, & Confluence



DESIGN LEADERSHIP

Journey & Experience Mapping
Interaction Design
Behavioral, Attitudinal, and Performance UX Metrics
User Research & Problem Framing
UX Strategy in Product Planning
Information Architecture
Wireframing & Prototyping
UI/UX Audit & Heuristic Eval.
Data-Driven UX Decisions
Design Systems (Implementation & Management)
Responsive Design



SOFT SKILLS

Strategic Decision-Making
Stakeholder Communication
Bias Toward Action
Navigating Ambiguity
Leading Without Authority
Continuous Improvement Mindset
Outcome-Oriented Prioritization
Problem Decomposition
Cross-Functional Facilitation
Hypothesis-Driven Development
Experimentation Mindset
Interpersonal Intelligence



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CASE STUDIES






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WRITING


Appetite Meets Opportunity: A Pragmatic System for Chipping Away at Design Debt︎︎︎
Spectrums of Delusion: How Mapping Misalignment Makes Decisions Easier︎︎︎
Speed, Perceived: Designing Interfaces That Feel Fast (Even When They’re Not)︎︎︎
Design Is Not a Department: Rethinking the Org Chart of Problem-Solving︎︎︎
Low Fidelity, High Leverage: Blueprinting for the Invisible Half of Product︎︎︎
Process as a Medium: Designing the Conditions for Better Work︎︎︎




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