Pankaj Sharma
Director For Travel & Hospitality at Rafeeq
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolPankaj Sharma is a seasoned travel and payments technology leader with 11 years of experience building commercial strategy and product-led growth across travel tech, fintech, and technology consulting. Currently Director for Travel & Hospitality at Rafeeq in Qatar, he designs and scales travel and lifestyle verticals—hotel bookings, car rentals, insurance and experiences—bringing a founder-level strategic perspective to product-market fit. He has led regional GTM and account management teams at Expedia and PayTabs, driving double-digit growth across IAMET, SEA and ANZ while aligning product, engineering and commercial teams. As a co-founder of FinSolutions he blends deep payments infrastructure knowledge with hands-on consultancy for travel tech projects, risk and compliance. Comfortable at the intersection of partnerships, product and operations, Pankaj has a track record of launching regional payment and QR-based consumer products and translating complex payments economics into scalable travel solutions. Based in the UAE with an INSEAD executive credential and an MBA, he combines hospitality roots with fintech rigor to deliver customer-centric travel experiences.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Sales and International Business, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Sales and International Business at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of ManagementDriving Value through Business Acumen Finance General, Driving Value through Business Acumen Finance General at INSEADBachelor's in Hotel Management Hotel Management, Bachelor's in Hotel Management Hotel Management at Karnataka Jobs and Careers
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Github Skills (82)
downtime10
docker-compose9
spring-mvc9
docker9
cas9
jwt8
authentication8
jwt-authentication8
ruby8
jax-rs8
authorization8
rails8
go-application7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sharmapankaj2512/canvas
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:132 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
sharmapankaj2512/resumable-downloader
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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