Kunaal Sikka
FounderCo-founder & President at SubImage
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSubImage · YC
About
Kunaal Sikka is co-founder of SubImage. He previously worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and as a Staff Engineer at Lyft, where he built security infrastructure including SIEM, insider threat detection, and vulnerability management systems. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Washington.
Co-founder & President at SubImageYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Kunaal went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran SubImage's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Kunaal can intro founders to SubImage's investors below.
SubImage's investors · 2
Co-founders at SubImage
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Alex ChantavyCo-founder & CEO
Experience
- SubImageCo-founder & Presidentcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- AnthropicMember of Technical Staff2024New York, United States
- LyftStaff Engineer2023 — 2024
- LyftSenior Software Engineer2021 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- LyftSoftware Engineer II2020 — 2021
- LyftSoftware Engineer2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- University of WashingtonData Engineer, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences2018 — 2020Greater Seattle Area
- MicrosoftProgram Manager Intern2019Redmond, Washington
- LyftSoftware Engineer Intern2018Greater Seattle Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern2017Redmond, WA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering - University of WashingtonResearch Assistant2016Bothell
Skills & more
Apache Beam1LinuxDockerElastic Stack (ELK)Java26Python19HTML20PowerBI4Kubernetes1Apache Spark1Apache KafkaGo (Programming Language)
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Distributed SystemsSoftware Project ManagementSoftware DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipData AnalysisLeadershipPublic SpeakingPython (Snake)Languages English · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kunaal Sikka?
- Kunaal Sikka is co-founder of SubImage. He previously worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and as a Staff Engineer at Lyft, where he built security infrastructure including SIEM, insider threat detection, and vulnerability management systems. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Washington.
- Where does Kunaal Sikka work?
- Kunaal Sikka is Co-founder & President of SubImage.
- What companies did Kunaal Sikka found?
- Kunaal Sikka founded SubImage.
- Where did Kunaal Sikka go to school?
- Kunaal Sikka studied at University of Washington (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); ETH Zürich (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Issaquah High School.
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