Akash Makkar

Product Director

Faridabad, Haryana, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expertise in product management and development.
Proven track record in enhancing digital payment experiences.
Strong background in software engineering and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Manager with a strong software engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct DesignSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesC++JavaHTMLJavaScriptData StructuresMySQLLinuxMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordPowerPointResearchTeamworkPhotoshop

About

A creative problem solver with an entrepreneurial approach, with a diverse background of product and software development. I am working on digital payments to make money transfer as seamless as sending a message.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs

Current Experience

Paytm

7 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Group Product Manager

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

Senior Product Manager

Jul 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs

 Part of consumer Product team and worked uponMoney Transfer Experience on Paytm Consumer App
 Launched the All-in-one Payment History where a unified view of all the transactions done by a user on Paytm platform using Wallet, UPI linked Bank accounts or through credit card/debit card are shown.
 Worked on providing an omni channel experience to the customer for making payments using Paytm app through any mode viz wallet, UPI, IMPS, NEFT.
 Created and optimised workflows leading to better funnel conversion (up by ~10%); ~300 million transactions per month,
 Built a chat interface in payment flow to increase user engagement and retention
 Paytm has over 100 Million UPI linked Bank Accounts and over 300 Million Wallets.
 Building features around contextual recommendation in order to promote - 'Tap behaviour vs Type'
 Defining GTM for any new product launch
 A/B experimentation to validate product changes and improve selected KPIs

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct DesignAgile MethodologiesC++Java+4

Executive Product Manager

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos

Product Manager

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Associate Product Manager

Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Software Engineer

May 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

 Worked on migrating Wallet code base to Alipay’s tech stack.
 Actively involved with the recruitment process, organising technical competitions and presenting tech talks.

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Naukri.com

Senior Software Engineer

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

 Worked as backend software engineer to develop the service platform that provided service layer on top of datastore systems to serve data to various application teams.
 Conducted training sessions on Java & related technologies for freshers joined in July’16

JavaSoftware Development