Roos Mulder

Overview

Building Vista AI in Amsterdam - consumer finance. Grew the team to 39 people across 5 countries. Raised $19 million across 2 rounds. Before that: BlaBlaCar and UniCredit.

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Experience

1. Founder

   May 2024 - Present
   Vista AI · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
   • Took Vista AI from zero to $2 million ARR.
   • Grew the team to 38 people across 5 countries.
2. Director of Engineering

   May 2021 - May 2024
   BlaBlaCar · 3 yr · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Moved 71% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 17 engineers.
3. Staff Full-Stack Engineer

   Jul 2019 - May 2021
   UniCredit · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Grew the web team from 6 to 28 engineers.
4. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
   Ericsson · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 19% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
   Wolt · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Wrote the lending service that now handles 27 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 42% in two quarters.

Projects

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Education

1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

   MSc, Engineering
   2010 - 2012
2. Bocconi University

   BSc, Engineering
   2003 - 2006