Jyoti Bansal

Jyoti Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of two unicorn companies: AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017) and Harness (valued at nearly $4 billion). At AppDynamics, he pioneered application performance management (APM) for modern distributed applications. He founded Harness in 2017 to transform software delivery with AI-powered continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps solutions. Born and raised in India, Jyoti earned his B.Tech from IIT Delhi and moved to the US to build his entrepreneurial career. His deep technical expertise in distributed systems and his vision for simplifying complex engineering challenges have made him one of the most successful Indian founders in enterprise software.

Harness is a modern software delivery platform that uses AI to simplify and accelerate the entire software development lifecycle. Founded in 2017, the company provides solutions for continuous integration, continuous delivery, feature flags, cloud cost management, and security testing. Harness uses machine learning to verify deployments, rollback failures automatically, and optimize cloud spending. The platform serves over 500 enterprise customers including American Express, Dell, and Expedia. The company is valued at nearly $4 billion and is transforming how enterprises build, test, and deploy software.