# Ankit Sobti

> Ankit Sobti is the co-founder and field CTO of Postman, the San Francisco-headquartered API platform used by more than 40 million people and 500,000 organizations. An engineer educated at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology and the Indian School of Business, he worked at Yahoo, Adobe, and Media.net before going full time on Postman in 2014. His career has followed one persistent question: how can the hidden connections between software systems become easier for people, teams, and now AI agents to understand and use?

- **Role:** Co-founder and Field CTO at Postman
- **Organizations:** Postman, Media.net, Adobe, Yahoo
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, MBA, Indian School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded Postman and helped grow it from a side project into an API platform used by more than 40 million people and 500,000 organizations., Helped lead Postman's technology through its evolution from a Chrome extension into a collaborative, enterprise API platform., Named with his co-founders to Forbes India's 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

## Career timeline

- **2009-2011** — Worked as a software engineer at Yahoo, where he met future Postman co-founder Abhinav Asthana and was named as an inventor on a web-content relevance patent.
- **2011-2012** — Worked in engineering at Adobe, continuing to build experience with production systems at scale.
- **2012-2013** — Completed an MBA at the Indian School of Business; Postman grew from roughly 100 users when he entered to 50,000 by graduation.
- **2013-2014** — Led the real-time bidding business at Media.net and helped turn around an underperforming part of the operation.
- **2014** — Joined Abhinav Asthana and Abhijit Kane full time to establish Postman, Inc. and lead its technology.
- **2016** — Named with his Postman co-founders to Forbes India's 30 Under 30 list.
- **2018** — Named with his Postman co-founders to Fortune India's 40 Under 40 list.
- **2021** — Postman raised a $225 million Series D at a $5.6 billion valuation.
- **2025-present** — Serves publicly as Postman's co-founder and field CTO, focusing on API-first development, enterprise adoption, and AI-agent infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Postman and helped grow it from a side project into an API platform used by more than 40 million people and 500,000 organizations.
- Helped lead Postman's technology through its evolution from a Chrome extension into a collaborative, enterprise API platform.
- Named with his co-founders to Forbes India's 30 Under 30 list in 2016.
- Named with his co-founders to Fortune India's 40 Under 40 list in 2018.
- Named as an inventor on US patent US8909633B2, concerning the relevance of web content.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published 'The Agentic OS,' describing lessons from Postman's work toward becoming an AI-native company and arguing that useful agents need organizational context, permissions, judgment, and clear outcomes.
- **2026-05** — Published essays on quality engineering in the AI era and on forward-deployed engineering, agents, and APIs.
- **2026-03** — Postman introduced a redesigned AI-native API platform; Sobti has publicly framed the shift around agent-ready APIs, catalogs, context, and governance.
- **2025-06** — Appeared at POST/CON 25 as field CTO in a session on the practical challenges of agents, APIs, and the Model Context Protocol.

## Links

- Website: https://www.postman.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankit-sobti
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sobtiankit

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Last updated: 2026-09-28