Akhil Vinnakota
Product Manager at Paytm · MBA Candidate · Solo Founder
📍 Bengaluru, India
Product Manager at Paytm driving flight booking, supplier onboarding, and post-booking experiences. MBA candidate, AI Product Developer, and Solo Founder who built and shipped Promptune, a Google-approved Chrome extension used by AI power users across India. Experienced in defining KPIs, tracking 40+ metrics, and building with a deep user-centric mindset.
Key Achievements
Driving flight post-booking (cancellations, refunds, rescheduling), supply onboarding, and payment services across airline bookings at Paytm.
Partnered with BI to standardize data pipelines tracking 40+ KPIs across cancellations, refunds, booking funnel, and post-booking processes.
Increased travel agent engagement at Amadeus by launching an AI productivity copilot, resulting in rapid user adoption.
Won the Innovation Award at Amadeus for building a self-service XML validation platform for nested XSDs.
Featured Project
Promptune
Type Naturally, Prompt Perfectly
Promptune is a Google-approved Chrome extension that lives natively inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity. It transforms raw, messy thoughts into expert-level prompts in 1 second — with unique support for 10+ Indian languages. Built, shipped, and grown entirely as a solo founder.
- Identified prompt-quality as the #1 friction in AI adoption
- Shipped v1 solo in 4 weeks; iterated from real user feedback
- Prioritised Indian language support as a zero-competition moat
- Navigated Chrome Web Store policy & compliance end-to-end
"Saves me an hour a day — I just type 'reply yes' and click Professional."
Product Builder"I write in Telugu-English and Promptune converts it into perfect system prompts for Claude."
Developer"It hovers right inside the chat box. Totally frictionless."
Power User
Add to ChromePM Case Studies & Articles
Published analyses on market strategy, user psychology, conversion funnels, and AI product architecture.
Rapido Isn't Just Entering Food Delivery. It's Monetizing Idle Rider Capacity.
Product Strategy & Supply Economics Analysis
Rapido launched 'Ownly' food delivery to compete with Swiggy & Zomato.
The core strategic asset isn't just food delivery—it's monetizing idle bike-taxi riders during off-peak commute hours (1–4 PM, 8–11 PM) to maximize rider hourly yield.
The Feature Quick-Commerce Apps Don't Know They Need.
User Psychology & Retention UX Teardown
Users run out of recurring household staples (e.g., hand wash) but delay reordering, placing fragmented orders over weeks.
Proposing a smart replenishment queue & predictive low-stock reminder loop for quick-commerce apps (Zepto, Blinkit) to lock in repeat purchase habits.
I Used Microsoft's Meeting AI, Then I Got Curious About How It Works. Here's Both.
AI Product Architecture & Technical Teardown
Productivity loss in long, wandering corporate meetings where key decisions & action items get lost.
Technical breakdown of Microsoft Copilot / Teams Meeting AI: STT audio pipeline, transcript processing, RAG summarization, action item extraction, and UX delivery.
The Opportunity That Disappears With One Swipe
Mobile WebView Funnel & Conversion Teardown
When users open external job/event Google Forms in LinkedIn mobile WebView and switch apps to copy info, the form resets and feed refreshes.
Torn-down user journey friction and proposed 5 product solutions: WebView session persistence, default browser preference, resume prompts, and profile auto-fill.
Work Experience
Product Manager
PaytmFull-time
- Driving product development for flight post-booking processes including cancellations, refunds, rescheduling, ancillaries, and customer support workflows to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
- Driving supply-side initiatives, integrating multiple suppliers into the flight booking funnel and enabling seamless supply onboarding.
- Standardizing data pipelines, partnering with the BI team to track 40+ KPIs across cancellations, refunds, and post-booking processes.
- Working on domestic premium cabin offers and payment services across airline flight bookings to report conversions, transaction success, booking funnel, and revenue growth.
AI Product Developer
AmadeusFull-time
- Led development of an AI copilot for travel agents, reducing resolution effort and increasing engagement by 40%.
- Defined product metrics and reliability guidelines for airline travel operations.
- Led end-to-end feature delivery from problem identification and requirements to rollout, adoption tracking, and impact assessment.
- Collaborated with engineering, product, and analytics teams to define performance metrics and track impact.
Software Developer Intern
AmadeusInternship
- Built a self-service XML validation platform for nested XSDs, improving team efficiency and winning the Innovation Award.
- Developed internal tooling using Java, Quarkus, Python, and MongoDB, optimizing QA reliability.
- Defined success metrics, functional requirements, and delivery plans with product teams.
Skills & Expertise
Soft Skills
Education
MBA
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)
B.Tech (Honours)
Raghu Engineering College
Certifications
AWS Cloud Virtual Internship
AICTE
Introduction to Applied Business Analytics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Responsive Website Development
University of London
Java FullStack
Wipro
Python Programming
University of Michigan
Kubernetes
CNCF / Coursera
Product Management Fundamentals
Coursera
Advanced Computer Networks
NPTEL
Business Analytics with Excel
Coursera
Developer Virtual Experience
Accenture
Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis in Business
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign