Julian Vega

Head of Design

Julian leads design at Vaultly, where his goal is an interface anyone can understand at a glance. He came from consumer software, convinced that most financial apps confuse people not by accident but by neglect.

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Since 2022 he has shaped a clean, confident experience that puts clarity ahead of clutter — fewer decisions, plainer language, and screens that tell you what you need without making you hunt for it.

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He believes the best financial design is the kind you never notice, because it simply got out of your way.

Work since

2022

Based in

Los Angeles, CA

Focus

Previously

Airbnb

// Career

The path to Vaultly

A decade spent inside legacy finance, then a clean break to rebuild it — here are the milestones that shaped Maya's path to founding Vaultly.

2013

Joined Goldman Sachs

Led settlement-infrastructure teams processing billions in daily volume across global markets.

2021

Founded Vaultly

Left her MD role to build a real-time neo-bank on rails Vaultly would own end to end.

2022

Public launch

Shipped the core product in 14 months and processed the first million transactions in 90 days.

2024

Series B — $84M

Led the raise to expand into European and Latin American markets and scale embedded finance.

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