Welcome
I'm Dara—a hands-on designer-developer turned product manager, currently leading Platform Services (with a heavy dose of learning on the job) at Beyond Limits, an AI company built on NASA tech (est. 2014, Series C, HC 350+). My background blends multi-disciplinary design (proud DMA alum), coding (front-end/UI development), and cognitive science (involvement in research). I am a clarity devotee, equally at ease with humans and machines, and never shy about asking the question everyone else is holding back.
Skills
- Product Roadmapping
- Prioritization & Work Slicing
- Product Comms
- Cross-functional Alignment
- Customer-Centricity
- OKRs & Success Metrics
- Backlog Grooming
- Sprint Planning
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban
- Jira/Confluence/BitBucket
- Systems Thinking
- Technical Decision-Making
- API Design Literacy
- Documentation & Diagrams
- Front-End Fundamentals
- Git & Version Control
- Journey & Experience Mapping
- User Research & Problem Framing
- UX Strategy in Product Planning
- UX Metrics
- Interaction Design
- Information Architecture
- Wireframing & Prototyping
- Design Sprints
- UI/UX Audit & Heuristic Evaluation
- Data-Driven UX Decisions
- Design Systems
- Responsive Design
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Stakeholder Communication
- Leading Without Authority
- Cross-Functional Facilitation
- Interpersonal Intelligence
- Bias Toward Action
- Navigating Ambiguity
- Continuous Improvement Mindset
- Impact-Oriented Prioritization
- Problem Decomposition
- Hypothesis-Driven Development
- Experimentation Mindset
Selected Projects
CALTECH and Beyond Limits partnered for the Indy Autonomous Challenge, the world's fastest autonomous racing program. I led the design of the ground station UI for live telemetry and vehicle performance monitoring—an R&D initiative still in progress.
Designed and product-managed a core knowledge management component for a hybrid AI platform. This internal infrastructure supports authoring, versioning, and reasoning of operational knowledge. (Details coming soon)
Helped an R&D team define, prototype, and scale a no-code authoring platform from proof-of-concept to a field-ready product, tailored for DoD medical educators. Delivered a usable MVP that aligned with government contracting constraints and instructional design needs.
Led a strategic pivot of an education platform, repositioning it from K–12 into the medical vertical. Built modular SaaS components, shaped the product narrative, and guided the design of an ecosystem approach for authoring, delivery, and analytics.
Delivered perceptual-adaptive learning experiences via a no-code authoring system. Focused on improving training outcomes and instructional agility for DoD educators—resulting in adoption, repeat contracts, and revenue traction.
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager – Platform Services, Agentic AI
Beyond Limits
Dec 2022 - Present
Founding Product Designer, UI Engineer – Products & Services
Insight Learning Technology, Inc.
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Programmer Analyst II, UI Engineer – Research Tools
UCLA Psychology Department
Sep 2013 - Aug 2016
Product Designer, UI Engineer (Contract)
Tilofy Social Trend Forecasting
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
Design Strategy (Internship, Agency)
Use All Five
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Dean’s Office Graphic Designer (Work Study)
UCLA Arts
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
Web Designer + Developer
Freelance, Non-US
Jan 2002 - Jan 2013