Open to IT Project Management roles · Italy & Europe

Arif Hasan Apu

IT PROJECT & PRODUCT MANAGEMENT — DHAKA → ROME

Six-plus years leading cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle — from requirements analysis and system design to delivery and post-launch optimisation. I turn messy business needs into shipped software.

Portrait of Arif Hasan Apu
I am a contrarian by necessity, not by choice.
6+years in product & IT project delivery
5products shipped — SaaS, HR, audit & procurement
2scholarships — Erasmus Italiano & UniTrento Merit
3teams led at once — dev, SQA & customer support

Release history

Careers ship in versions.
Here's my changelog.

Every role added capability to the same product: someone who can own a build from first requirement to release notes.

  1. v5.x 2024 — NOW
    ROME, IT

    Current build — in progress

    MSc Computer Science · Sapienza University of Rome / University of Trento

    • Relocated from Dhaka to Rome on the Erasmus Italiano scholarship (Italian Ministry of University and Research).
    • Deepening technical foundations — AI, data, systems — on top of six years of product delivery.
    • Actively interviewing for IT project & product management roles across Italy and Europe.
    MSc · ongoing Erasmus Italiano UniTrento Merit Scholarship
  2. v4.0 MAR — SEP 2024
    DHAKA, BD

    R&D and Product Lead

    Ideaxen · Panthapath, Dhaka

    • Set and executed strategic product plans aligned to business objectives.
    • Coordinated internal and external stakeholders on project scope, system goals and requirements.
    • Ran day-to-day operations — streamlining processes for efficiency, quality and cost.
  3. v3.0 DEC 2021 — FEB 2024
    DHAKA, BD

    Research & Development Analyst

    Ideaxen · Panthapath, Dhaka

    • Turned customer data into prioritised requirement specs, data maps, flowcharts and test instructions.
    • Led BEPARI — a full business SaaS suite — across the dev, SQA and customer support teams: requirements queue, SRS documents, database design, test plans and release notes.
    • Cultivated strategic partnerships to open new revenue; kept production systems healthy and monitored.

    Shipped during this cycle

    BEPARI · team lead Baniadam Expense Tracker Audit Solution · PM Procure Logic · analyst
  4. v2.0 FEB — NOV 2021
    DHAKA, BD

    Executive Officer, IT

    Academy of Business Professionals (ABP) · Dhaka

    • Planned and designed the organisation's ERP system using Scrum.
    • Business analysis across SEO, market research and new course launch plans.
    • Owned system monitoring, website optimisation, IT support and employee training.
  5. v1.0 AUG 2018 — OCT 2020
    DHAKA, BD

    System Analyst

    MindLab-IT · Uttara, Dhaka

    • Helped stakeholders and product owners validate business needs and set development priorities.
    • Gathered requirements across multiple initiatives; partnered with engineering and QA on acceptance criteria.
    • Set escalation procedures; researched and recommended new products and upgrades.

Shipped to production

Products with my fingerprints on them

In-house SaaS and client platforms delivered at Ideaxen — owned from requirements through release.

BEPARI

Team Lead

A complete business management suite, delivered as SaaS. Led three teams at once — prioritising the dev queue, writing SRS documents, designing databases, building SQA test plans and approving customer-facing release notes.

SaaSSRSMySQLSQA

An HR management solution covering the employee lifecycle — built in-house at Ideaxen with requirements and analysis from the R&D team.

HR techIn-house

Expense management, simplified — a lightweight tool for tracking and controlling company spending.

FintechIn-house

Audit Solution

Project Manager

IT security compliance auditing software, delivered for a client. Managed scope, stakeholders and delivery end to end.

Client projectSecurityCompliance

Procure Logic

Analyst

Reinventing sourcing and procurement — requirements analysis and specification for a client procurement platform.

Client projectProcurement

Selected projects

Side quests & prototypes

Competition entries, academic builds and product concepts — from fashion-tech avatars to classroom STEM kits.

Fashion Twin

Chief Product Officer

An e-commerce fitting room that builds 3D body avatars from photos — raising buyer confidence and cutting product returns.

FigmaAxure RPJira
JUN 2025 · TEAM

Level Up Tool Box

Engineer & Tester

A safe, affordable, portable toolbox for interactive STEM simulations — built for students, teachers and schools at the ICT Innovation Challenge.

PythonComputer vision3D sensing
JUN 2025 · ICT INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Hunt Photographer

PM · UX · Data

An online job marketplace connecting clients with reliable photographers — browse offers, hire, work.

ScrumMySQLBitbucketTrello
JAN 2019 · TEAM

UoG Forum

DB Engineer & Dev

An open-source, role-based discussion forum for collecting ideas from students and staff.

PHPMVCMySQL
FEB 2018 · TEAM

Thermostat Prototype

UX Design

A sensing-and-control application concept: keep a physical system at its desired set point.

Adobe XDJustinmindSketchUp
JAN 2018 · SOLO

Toolkit

What I bring to the table

The overlap of product judgement, technical fluency and the patience to write things down properly.

Product & delivery

  • Agile · Scrum · Kanban
  • Requirements analysis & SRS writing
  • Roadmapping & prioritisation
  • Risk management & scheduling
  • QA planning & testing
  • SWOT & market analysis

Tools of choice

  • Jira · Trello · ClickUp · Monday.com
  • Google Workspace · Slack
  • Power BI · Google Analytics
  • Zapier
  • Adobe XD · Justinmind

Technical

  • Systems analysis
  • MySQL · SQL · data analytics
  • Technical writing
  • WordPress · cPanel · DigitalOcean
  • ERP & PoS systems

Languages

  • English — full professional
  • Bengali — native

Education & recognition

Credentials, stamped

MSc, Computer Science

Sapienza University of Rome · University of Trento

● ONGOING — ROME / TRENTO, ITALY

BSc (Hons), Business Information Technology

University of Greenwich

CLASS OF 2018

Certifications — Google, 2023

Introduction to Generative AI Introduction to Large Language Models Generative AI Fundamentals Introduction to Responsible AI

Scholarships & awards

  • Erasmus ItalianoItalian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) — Feb 2026
  • UniTrento Merit ScholarshipUniversity of Trento — Oct 2024

Community

  • President, DRONEDaffodil Rising Of New Excellence — 2016–17
  • Secretary, DRONE Programming Club2015–16

From the blog

Notes on interaction design

Essays from a design case study — building a smart-thermostat interface — on how people think, and what that demands from the software we put in front of them.

How attention, memory, perception and mental models shape the way users meet an interface — and how designers can work with them instead of against them.

IXD SERIES

Privacy, security, hardware limits and flaky networks: the constraints that decide whether a mobile design survives contact with the real world.

IXD SERIES

Lean UX in practice, plus the seven principles — from functionality to feedback — behind a prototype people can actually use.

IXD SERIES

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