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Kumar Saurabh Johny

Kumar Saurabh Johny (J)

Founder and CEO, Darner. Maker of Garth.

J builds Garth, the engineering intelligence platform for AI-assisted development. It exists to answer three questions every engineering leader now gets asked: what did the AI spend return, will the release land on the date, and is the code AI wrote safe to ship.

Before Darner he was CEO of Cathyos, which he built and exited to Automation Anywhere. He has spent his career on the same problem from different sides: how engineering organizations know what is true about their own work, and what they do once they know.

He writes here about measurement, governance, and release risk. The positions are his. The numbers are sourced.

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Measurement Engineering leadership

You get the behavior you measure. Not the one you want.

AI adoption is being measured the way lines of code were measured in 1995. The results are about the same. What to count instead, and why none of it needs a vendor.

September 2026 ยท 6 min