Abhinav Garg joins CAST to lead Indian operations

CAST has announced the appointment of Abhinav Garg as Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Indian operations. This appointment is seen as a strategic move in the company's increased investment in India's burgeoning market for custom-built software.

India is home to nearly five million software engineers, surpassing the number in the United States. This substantial workforce is driving the need for CAST's technology, which aids in digital transformation, knowledge transfer, application modernisation, and software observability and governance.

"Having worked with large Indian enterprises, system integrators, and global competency centres for nearly two decades, I've seen firsthand how digital leaders struggle with the ever-growing complexity of the software underpinning their mission-critical systems, the brains of their business," Garg stated. "IT executives and practitioners have never had a greater need for CAST's unmatched capabilities in this regard. I'm elated with the opportunity to lead the software intelligence revolution in India."

Prior to joining CAST, Garg led the software-defined storage business for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in India, significantly scaling the adoption of AWS cloud-native services. He has also held leadership positions at Dell, EMC, and Wipro, contributing to his extensive experience in the field.

CAST Global COO Ernie Hu remarked, "The adoption of CAST technology has rapidly grown in the last five years, yet it remains a hidden gem outside of the global system integrators. Given Abhinav's technological savvy and impressive track record in scaling software-based businesses, we are thrilled to have him at the helm, taking CAST India to the next level."

CAST's flagship products include CAST Highlight and CAST Imaging. CAST Highlight serves as an application control tower, assessing application portfolios for cloud maturity, technical debt, resiliency, agility, open source risks, and environmental impact. It automatically understands the source code of hundreds of applications in hours, enabling organisations to accelerate optimisation for cloud, reduce obsolescence, streamline maintenance, and reduce IP risks and security exposures. Additionally, it helps make software more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly.

CAST Imaging, described as the "MRI for software," visualises how a software application works, mapping its thousands of code elements and their relationships into a living knowledge base of internal architecture. This tool is intended to provide deep insights into software applications, facilitating better understanding and management.

CAST software intelligence products can be purchased directly from the company or through partners, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company also offers flexible plans for central departments and global capability centres that support multiple projects and teams.

Abhinav Garg's appointment is expected to strengthen CAST's presence in India and help meet the increasing demand for advanced software intelligence tools in the region.