Ville Tuulos
CEO And Co-Founder at Outerbounds
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVille Tuulos is a product-focused engineering leader and entrepreneur with 14 years building large-scale data and ML infrastructure, now shaping enterprise AI platforms as Product Fellow at Anaconda after selling his startup. He co-founded Outerbounds and started Metaflow at Netflix, creating developer-friendly, human-centric tooling that bridges research and production ML. His background spans founding startups (Bitdeli, Maybit), leading ML infrastructure at Netflix, and driving data-driven revenue systems at AdRoll, demonstrating both product vision and deep systems craftsmanship. Ville has a long history of open-source work—from Disco and Ringo to Metaflow—reflecting a consistent pattern of shipping infrastructure that others adopt. Based in the Bay Area, he combines CEO-level product judgment with hands-on technical direction for customers and engineering teams. Less obvious: his career is rooted in academic-grade research and novel systems (probabilistic search, JIT in-memory stores) that repeatedly anticipate industry trends.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Helsinki
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Github Skills (93)
python10
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gcp10
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event-data10
ai10
azure10
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kubernetes10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
outerbounds/dsbook
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Code samples for the Effective Data Science Infrastructure book
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythonsciencedata-sciencedata-processingeffective
tuulos/traildb
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:75 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year
eventsstoringdatabasequerying
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