Lalit Kundu

Lalit Kundu is co-founder and CTO of Pelica Health, a Y Combinator-backed company that has raised $2.5M to build the AI operating system for value-based care. He leads engineering on the canonical-record data layer, the role-specific AI copilots, and the action layer that closes the loop with members and providers.

Lalit spent seven years at YouTube and Google. Most recently he was Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at YouTube Commerce Billing, serving as area tech lead for a 45-engineer organization and direct manager for a team of eight. His teams launched YouTube TV Sunday Ticket and ran YouTube's reseller programs. Before that he led twenty-plus engineers on multi-quarter projects worth $400M+ in incremental ARR, redesigned core billing infrastructure, and shipped integrations including Google Play billing. He began his career at Google Pay in Hyderabad, launching UPI collect flows now used by more than 40 million people a year.

Outside of his day job, Lalit spent eight years organizing competitive programming worldwide. He curated more than 200 algorithm challenges and led 50+ volunteers across CodeChef, HackerRank, HackerEarth, InterviewBit, SPOJ, and Google Kick Start, reaching more than 300,000 participants. He has been ranked among the top 0.1 percent of competitive programmers globally.

Lalit is an MBA candidate at The Wharton School (Class of 2027, currently on leave of absence to build Pelica). He is an invited member of the Forbes Technology Council, where he publishes on software engineering, AI, and healthcare. He was interviewed by the Chief Information Officer of the New York Stock Exchange on theCUBE about AI agents and the future of software engineering. He is a current participant in Y Combinator (YC X25).

At Pelica, Lalit writes about the unglamorous data engineering that determines whether healthcare AI helps or hallucinates.