Founder Profile
Abhinav Asthana
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Abhinav Asthana possessed an incredibly rigorous, highly analytical background in advanced software engineering, complex systems architecture, and massive-scale web development. Having successfully graduated from the incredibly prestigious BITS Pilani and operating as a fiercely skilled developer who deeply understood the fundamental brokenness of backend testing tools, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully pioneer the massive Postman platform.
Founding Story
Abhinav Asthana is a fiercely visionary Indian software engineer, highly strategic digital entrepreneur, and the profoundly influential CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the massively dominant Postman API development empire. Operating as an incredibly frustrated developer at Yahoo, Asthana aggressively recognized the massive, agonizingly chaotic friction involved in testing and documenting complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In 2014, he relentlessly partnered with Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane to completely launch Postman as a simple Chrome extension. By fiercely engineering a highly intuitive, massively collaborative platform that completely streamlined the entire API lifecycle, his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized global software development. His massive corporate execution permanently established Postman as an absolute multi-billion dollar monopoly used by millions of global developers.