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title: "Rahul Sharma - Vice President Product | Bus in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Rahul Sharma, VP, Product @Abhibus (Bus Vertical @ixigo) based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and elevenlabs."
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# Rahul Sharma on Tal

## Headline

VP, Product @Abhibus \(Bus Vertical @ixigo\)

## About

Product Management leader having extensive experience in Travel & Fintech space\. Led strong, innovative and diverse teams to success through focussed planning and execution\. As a Product Manager, I have contributed to Business Strategy, Market Analysis, Business Model feasibility, customer engagements, Go\-to\-Market Strategies, Data Analytics, Customer delight scenarios, distress handling, Product requirements, Backlog management among other things\. My product philosophy is based on Data\-driven approach & I like to validate hypothesis through experiments and data\. In hindsight, I have observed I thrive in an innovation\-oriented environment\. I am an Indian School of Business \(ISB\) Hyderabad alumnus having majored in Marketing and IT Management\. Core competencies: Business Strategy \| Product Market Fit \| New Product Design & Development \| Requirement Gathering \| Product Backlog Grooming \| Release Planning & Milestones \| Community & Social Media Management \| Fostering Cross Functional Collaboration

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

lovable

notebooklm

## Work experience

Vice President Product \| Bus at ixigo, Feb 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Associate Vice President, Product at ixigo, Jun 2022 \- Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Product Manager at Paysafe Group, Aug 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Led the product for Merchant Onboarding for Cards \(Amex, Visa, Mastercard etc\), Direct Debit \(Bacs, Sepa, ACH\) in E\-commerce unit of PaySafe

AVP, Product Management at AbhiBus, an Ixigo company\., Apr 2021 \- Aug 2021 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Led the Product at Abhibus \(Ixigo group\)

Product Manager at AbhiBus, an Ixigo company\., Jun 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, As part of the product team at Abhibus, I lead end to end product design, development and launch\. From market requirements, feasibility study to Wireframing and then Go\-to market strategy, I got to do it all at Abhibus\.

Senior Product Developer at Cafyne Software Technologies Private Limited, Oct 2016 \- Mar 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Cafyne is a AI and analytics startup having clients in diverse industries such as banks, digital media agencies\. It helps clients in their Digital transformation journey and achieve better ROI on their customer costs\. We incorporate cutting edge machine learning algorithms and big\-data technologies to provide actionable and meaningful insights to our clients\. My Responsibilities: 1\) Product Development \- Led the product development for next gen Cafyne\. 2\) Product Strategy \- Contributed in Live Feature Sentiment Market functionality that provides insight on pulse of a client's brand vis a vis competitor and market overall\. 3\) Other Responsibilities \- a\)Mentor to new hires\. b\)Contribute to Product UX/UI Design & Development\. c\)Maintenance of Devops Tech Stack

Software Engineer at CA Technologies, Jun 2013 \- Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, CA technologies is one of the largest company in Mainframe Computing along with Cloud and Distributed Computing\. It has build over 200 products for IT management which are used by thousands of clients worldwide including many Fortune 500 companies\. I was part of Harvest SCM, an enterprise product for Software Change Management & Application Lifecycle Management My Responsibilities: 1\) Product Development: I was responsible for JAVA stack across various modules such as Eclipse Plug\-in, Standalone JAVA Workbench and Transaction Manager Server\. 2\) Build & Release Management: Successfully released 2 major version \(r12\.6, v13\) and 2 minor versions \(r12\.5 SP1 and v13inc1\) during my stint across 12 platforms such as Windows,Linux,AIX,HPUX,Z/OS etc\. I was solely responsible for Installation, Updation and Migration Modules in all the 5 main components of the Product\. 3\)Other Responsibilities: Mentor to new hired engineers from University\. During my stint I mentored 5 new hired engineers

## Education

MBA \- Master of Business Administration, Marketing, Information & Technology Management, Indian School of Business

Bachelor of Engineering\(B\.E\), Information Technology\(IT\), Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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