Anirudha Kulkarni is Co-Founder and CEO of ByteAsk (YC F26), a YC-backed AI coding agent purpose-built for C and C++ developers in mission-critical industries such as defence, aerospace, robotics, and high-frequency trading.

Anirudha holds a B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, and previously worked on low-latency C++ systems at Optiver and Quantbox Research, where he built a Python-to-C++ optimizing transpiler that reduced execution time from 1.5 seconds to 150 nanoseconds in production.

A serial entrepreneur, Anirudha co-founded LawSutra AI in January 2026, an AI-powered legal research platform that was acquired by Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, within just four months of launch, serving over 100,000 lawyers.

At ByteAsk, Anirudha leads product, customers, and native C and C++ tooling, applying lessons from LawSutra around context, verification, and AI reliability to the complex world of systems programming.

ByteAsk's internal benchmarks show its grounding environment resolves 89% of firmware engineering tickets versus 61% for the best frontier model, and weekly active users were doubling week on week at the time of its $1M pre-seed raise.