Abhinav Asthana
Background
Abhinav Asthana studied computer science at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani in Goa, India. While working as an undergraduate intern at Yahoo! and later as a software consultant building front-end applications, Asthana spent hours every day debugging broken API endpoints with unreadable documentation.
Role at Postman, Inc.
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Postman, Inc. In 2012, frustrated by the friction of API testing, Asthana built the original Postman Chrome app over a weekend in Bengaluru. Alongside co-founders Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane, Asthana scaled Postman into a global developer phenomenon. Under his visionary, customer-centric leadership, Postman pioneered the executable Postman Collection standard, created the Public API Network, expanded to San Francisco, raised over $430 million in institutional capital, and built Postman into a $5.6 billion enterprise software titan generating over $180 million in annual recurring revenue. Asthana is widely celebrated as one of the most successful tech founders in Indian history. Asthana's visionary leadership established Postman as one of the most admired developer software institutions on Earth. An engineer at heart, Asthana continues to spend time reviewing API architectures and engaging directly with software developers on GitHub and social media. His calm, customer-obsessed stewardship guided Postman from a weekend side project into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise platform, inspiring a generation of technology entrepreneurs across India and the world.