# Founders

Coding agents still fail on C and C++, so we started ByteAsk.

![Anirudha Kulkarni](https://byteask.ai/img/team/anirudha-320.webp)

Co-founder, CEO

## Anirudha Kulkarni

Leads product, customers, and native C and C++ tooling.

IIT Delhi · Quantbox · Optiver

Built a Python-to-C++ transpiler at Quantbox that took production strategy code from 1.5 seconds to 150 nanoseconds. Worked on Optiver's delta-one desk.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirudha-kulkarni47/)

![Pratyush Saini](https://byteask.ai/img/team/pratyush-320.webp)

Co-founder, CTO

## Pratyush Saini

Leads the harness, retrieval, benchmarks, and model training.

IIT Delhi · Simbian · ThirdAI

Founding engineer at Simbian, building AI security agents that handle over a million incidents a year. At ThirdAI he led CPU-first training and inference, including the Bolt engine.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratyush-saini-96108a1a7/)

## Culture

Founders talk to customers themselves. Every hire owns a real piece of the product.

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