Daan Bos

Co-founder & CTO at Trellis Systems · Developer tooling · Rust, community

Trellis Systems

Amsterdam, Netherlands · CET (UTC+1)

12+ years experience

Bocconi University

English, Dutch

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Building Trellis Systems in Amsterdam - developer tooling. Took Trellis Systems from zero to $11 million ARR. Grew the team to 108 people across 5 countries. Before that: BMW Group and Siemens. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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developer toolsenterprise salesopen sourceRustcommunityproduct

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Raising a $6M pre-seed for expense management for landlords

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $6M
Instrument: SAFE
Committed so far: $572k from angels
Lead investor: Lead in place
Traction: $321k MRR after 15 months
Use of funds: 18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$321k MRR after 15 months. Looking for investors who know HR tech and can help with pricing.

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Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Jun 2022 - Present
Trellis Systems · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Signed 198 paying customers, 6 of them enterprises.
- Grew the team to 29 people across 2 countries.
- Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company.
Consultant
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
BMW Group · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Delivered 24 engagements across 4 countries.
- Designed the operating model for a 16 thousand-person transformation.
Associate Partner
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Siemens · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 4.
Engagement Manager
Aug 2014 - May 2016
Ericsson · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ran commercial diligence on 26 deals.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tooling.

Open-source developer tools toolkit

2023

A small library for developer tooling that 147 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Bocconi University
BSc, Computer Science
2010 - 2013

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