About
Lalit Kundu reached Staff Engineer at Google, where he led a large engineering organization and worked on high-revenue products. Earlier, he built core infrastructure for Google Pay India. He has competitive programming experience including ACM-ICPC World Finals participation and coaching India's International Olympiad in Informatics team.
Founder at PelicaYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Lalit went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Pelica's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Lalit can intro founders to Pelica's investors below.
Pelica's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Pelica
CZ
Catherine ZhaoFounder
Experience
- Pelica HealthCo-Foundercurrent2025 β present
- Forbes Technology CouncilMembercurrent2025 β present
- YouTubeStaff Engineer & Area Tech Lead2022 β 2025Mountain View, California, United States
- YouTubeSenior Software Engineer2020 β 2022Mountain View, California, United States
- YouTubeSoftware Engineer III2018 β 2020Mountain View, California
- Various coding platformsCoding Competitions Organizer2013 β 2020
- GoogleSoftware Engineer III2017 β 2018Greater Hyderabad Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer II2016 β 2017Hyderabad
- IIIT HyderabadTeaching Assistant2014 β 2015
- Trilogy InnovationsSoftware Engineering Intern2015Greater Bengaluru Area
- HackerRank (formerly interviewstreet)Summer Intern2014Banglore
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lalit Kundu?
- Lalit Kundu reached Staff Engineer at Google, where he led a large engineering organization and worked on high-revenue products. Earlier, he built core infrastructure for Google Pay India. He has competitive programming experience including ACM-ICPC World Finals participation and coaching India's International Olympiad in Informatics team.
- Where does Lalit Kundu work?
- Lalit Kundu is Founder of Pelica.
- What companies did Lalit Kundu found?
- Lalit Kundu founded Pelica.
- Where did Lalit Kundu go to school?
- Lalit Kundu studied at The Wharton School (MBA); Y Combinator; International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) (Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering).
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