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Early-career product builder focused on practical skills

I am starting my career after a bachelor’s degree and focused on building specific technical and product skills through hands-on externship work.

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A concise portfolio of work from my BeReal Product Management Externship and related skill-building, focused on product thinking and technical practice.

  • 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
  • Madina Masjid App Redesign
    Madina Masjid App Redesign

    Mapped three personas and three core user flows in FigJam; designed and built the app in Claude Code including a donate flow with structured payment screens; deployed it live on Netlify; developed a 'convergence' brand concept with a deep teal, warm amber, and off-white colour palette applied across every screen.

    FigJamClaude CodeNetlify

About me

I am starting my career after a bachelor’s degree and focused on building specific technical and product skills through hands-on externship work.

I am Hammad Akhtar, a recent bachelor's graduate beginning my career with a focus on building practical product and technical skills. I completed the BeReal Product Management Externship and I am working to grow hands-on experience in product work and related tools.

Externships

BeReal Product Management Externship

BeReal.

Experience

Extern

BeReal Product Management Externship · Aug 2026 – Present

Self-initiated

Quranly: 1447 Wrapped · Jun 2026 – Jul 2026

Freelance UX Designer

Auralis Design · Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

Self-initiated

Madina Masjid App Redesign · Mar 2026 – Apr 2026

UX Designer

Unihack x Centauri Hackathon · Apr 2026

Education

UX Design Institute

Professional Diploma in UX Design

Coventry University

BA (Hons) Product Design with International Enhancement, 2:1 · Class of 2023

Skills

Product management fundamentalsExternship project workTechnical skill developmentBachelor-level academic foundation
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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 social apps balance authenticity and growth through benchmarking, engagement analysis, and a feature design exercise. The work compared competitor features and produced a growth-oriented feature concept tailored to BeReal's product characteristics.

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced a detailed end-to-end journey map of BeReal users that recorded actions, thoughts, key frictions (permission prompts, the 2-minute post window, missed-notification anxiety) and moments of delight (post payoff, RealMoji reactions).

Project breakdown

I mapped the BeReal user journey from onboarding to session close, recorded user actions and thoughts at each stage, noted key frictions (permission prompts, 2-minute post window, missed-notification anxiety) and documented moments of delight like post payoff and RealMoji reactions.

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Madina Masjid App Redesign

Mapped three personas and three core user flows in FigJam; designed and built the app in Claude Code including a donate flow with structured payment screens; deployed it live on Netlify; developed a 'convergence' brand concept with a deep teal, warm amber, and off-white colour palette applied across every screen.

FigJamClaude CodeNetlify
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Quranly: 1447 Wrapped

Built a Spotify Wrapped-style reading experience in Claude Code using Fraunces, Gloock, and Amiri Arabic fonts for typography; tested the live build through heuristic evaluation and real user sessions and shipped fixes based on findings.

Claude CodeFrauncesGloockAmiri
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Auralis Design

Ran affinity diagramming and card sorting to restructure site navigation; iterated hi-fidelity Figma prototypes and generated hero section AI-imagery from client source images; created Figma components (FAQ accordion and payment form) and annotated them for developer handoff.

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Unihack x Centauri Hackathon

Led UX solo alongside three developers over 48 hours, redesigning navigation hierarchy and applying WCAG AA accessibility standards.

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