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Abhinav Asthana

CEO and Founder at Postman

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
User Interface
Programming
Flex
Web Applications
ActionScript
jQuery
PHP
MySQL
JavaScript
Java
HTML
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Distributed Systems
Web Development
User Interface Design
Android
Software Development
Algorithms

Education

Work Experience

2014

  • Founder and CEO

    2014

    On a mission to simplify API development. Started off as a side-project in 2012 and has grown to become an industry-standard API Platform. Postman has more than 20 million users and is used in every country and every industry sector. Along the way, raised more than $400 million from the best VCs in the world - Insight Venture Partners, CRV, Coatue, Battery, Bond Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.

TeliportMe

2010 - 2013

  • Founder - CTO

    2010 - 2013

Grayscale Design

2007 - 2011

  • Partner & co-founder

    2007 - 2011

    Started Grayscale (www.thinkgrayscale.com) with the intention of providing design and programming services to small businesses and start-ups. Grayscale has become a much sought after design firm with clients from across the globe and dealings in graphic design to advanced web programming.

2007 - 2010

  • CTO

    2007 - 2010

    Created BITS360, a virtual tour technology which consists of 360 degree cylindrical panoramas. The product was launched 5 months before Google StreetView. Programmed the back-end and also designed the user interface. The product was marketed as Goa360 to the Goa Tourist Department and Dubai360 to BITS Dubai.

2009 - 2009

  • Intern

    2009 - 2009

    Worked as a front-end engineer on an internal project.

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

2008 - 2008

  • Intern

    2008 - 2008

    Programmed a PIC microcontroller to test engine nozzle control of a PSLV rocket to a very high precision.