Ville Tuulos is a CEO and co-founder in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of experience building data, ML, and AI infrastructure. He founded Metaflow at Netflix and now leads Outerbounds, a developer-friendly platform that helps customers develop and deploy ML/AI systems and fosters an active community of practitioners. A repeat founder and engineering leader, he built petabyte-scale data stores at Nokia, led machine learning infrastructure and revenue-driving ML products at AdRoll, and launched Bitdeli before its acquisition. He is an active open-source author—behind projects like Disco and Ringo (an early NoSQL design predating Cassandra/Riak) and traildb—that show a long history of pragmatic, research-informed innovation. Known for a human-centric approach, he blends deep systems engineering with product and community building to move ML workflows from prototype to production.
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