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Delty

Spring 2025 · Active

AI staff engineer: software architect that leads coding agents

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

As software systems grow more complex and teams scale, key engineering work happens outside of code: product specs, docs, and architecture decisions and norms. That’s where a staff software engineer shines. Delty is an AI staff engineer. Like a seasoned engineer embedded in your team, Delty understands your architecture, code evolution, and constraints. It designs new software systems and grounds your coding agents with real engineering context to help you deliver reliable, scalable systems, fast.

Founders

  • Lalit KunduFounder

    building AI staff engineer that helps modern teams scale system design and make sense of the chaos coding agents leave behind. Previously grew to Staff Engineer at Google within 6 years, where I led a 45+ engineer org to deliver $XX-B ARR solutions. Before that, I built core payments infrastructure for Google Pay India. Programmer at heart, ACM-ICPC World Finalist and coach for India’s IOI team (8 medals).

  • Catherine ZhaoFounder

    Building an AI staff engineer. Prev Google APM & SWE, building YouTube shopping, ChromeOS, image & video GenAI infra, and enterprise AI agents. Dartmouth CS.