Summary
Lalit Kundu is a Forbes-recognized engineering executive and former Google/YouTube staff engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale payment and commerce systems and leading teams of 20โ45 engineers. He moved from new graduate to staff engineer in six years, launching UPI collect flows used by 40M+ Google Pay users and driving hundreds of millions in incremental ARR at YouTube through billing and commerce integrations. Now heading engineering at Pelica Health, Lalit is applying LLMs and AI agents to build a healthcare AI operating system after raising $2.5M from Y Combinator and top-tier VCs. A competitive programmer who represented India at the ACMโICPC World Finals, he pairs algorithmic rigor with product-minded execution and a track record of organizing large coding competitions. Based in San Francisco and currently a Forbes Technology Council member, he publishes thought leadership on AI, software engineering, and healthcare.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
MBA, MBA at The Wharton School
English, Hindi