{"benchmarks":{"business":["$100M+ B2B credit card sourcing platform at Mastercard (18 months)","Supported launch of Colombian neobank reaching 1M+ users","5× revenue growth for Mastercard Labs-as-a-Service in LAC","60+ innovation projects delivered, 90% client satisfaction","3 Mastercard President's Awards"],"engineering":["$0/query AI inference cost — on-prem GPU (2× RTX 3090) vs. ~$0.01–0.05/request on cloud APIs","Rust warm-path latency: 1.019 ms avg, 1.136 ms p95 (Vetra-rust); 1.1 ms TTFB (Movilo) — 300×+ over prior Next.js stack","13 autonomous agents deployed in 9 months with persistent memory and semantic recall","Zero-shot NLP pipeline: GLiNER + GLiREL + GLiClass (GPU) for knowledge graph extraction without labeled data","Automatic Postgres HA: ~2 min RTO, RPO ≈ 0 via streaming replication + quorum witness","5 production verticals (compliance, trading, healthcare, ecotourism, portfolio) on one shared runtime"]},"certifications":[{"institution":"Stanford University","issued":"","name":"Stanford Machine Learning"},{"institution":"The Wharton School","issued":"","name":"Entrepreneurship"},{"institution":"Mastercard, 2022 — women-led fintech LAC","issued":"","name":"CEO Force for Good Award"},{"institution":"Mastercard, 2020 — Digital Datathon LAC (best in company)","issued":"","name":"CEO Force for Good Award"},{"institution":"Mastercard — selected from ~30K global employees","issued":"","name":"President's Award × 3"},{"institution":"Mastercard, 2016","issued":"","name":"H.E.A.R.T Award"},{"institution":"Mastercard, 2016","issued":"","name":"Pelt Sales Award — Top 5 Worldwide"}],"closing":"Interactive version of this CV: paulovila.org","design_principles":["Excelencia — quality over shipping fast. No half-finished features behind flags.","Velocidad — speed in time-to-leverage and time-to-daily-use, not time-to-first-line","Facilidad — the daily-use experience must be effortless","Creatividad — preserve unconventional choices that reflect real insight","Sovereign by default — local-first inference, cloud only as failover","Single Rust runtime across every vertical"],"education":["<strong>M.S. Industrial Engineering</strong> — Universidad de los Andes (1996 – 1998)<br>100% scholarship, thesis 5/5","<strong>B.S. Mechanical Engineering</strong> — Universidad de los Andes (1990 – 1996)<br>thesis 5/5"],"executive_summary_short":"AI infrastructure architect and product executive with a 29-year track record spanning strategy consulting (McKinsey, BCG), corporate leadership (Mastercard, Carrefour), and hands-on systems engineering. Currently founding a local-first, multi-agent AI platform in Rust powering five live applications. <strong>$100M+ B2B platform · 1M+ neobank users · $30B+ merger delivery · $20M mine turnaround · 60K-member executive community</strong>","generated_at":"2026-07-14 06:30:51 UTC","hera_note":"Tier 2: 0/4 Hera-cached, 4 compressing in background.","how_i_work":["Single-operator at platform scale: design the core abstractions, build them in Rust, ship to real users across web + Telegram + WhatsApp. Five apps (paulovila.org, vetra.trade, latinos.paulovila.org, movilo.club, elgarcero.com) share one runtime today."],"identity":{"email":"paulo@paulovila.org","linkedin":"linkedin.com/in/pvila","location":"Bogotá, Colombia","name":"Paulo Vila","title":"Architect of Local-First AI Systems | Rust AI Infrastructure | Former BCG · McKinsey · Mastercard","website":"paulovila.org"},"init_sequence":["AI infrastructure architect and product executive with a 29-year track record spanning strategy consulting (McKinsey, BCG), corporate leadership (Mastercard, Carrefour), and hands-on systems engineering. Currently founding a local-first, multi-agent AI platform in Rust powering five live applications.","Combines board-level commercial judgment — $100M+ platforms, $30B+ merger delivery, 1M+ user launches — with the ability to design and ship the runtime personally. Bilingual English/Spanish, fluent French.","<strong>$100M+ B2B platform · 1M+ neobank users · $30B+ merger delivery · $20M mine turnaround · 60K-member executive community</strong>"],"locale_support":["Spanish (native)","English (fluent)","French (fluent)","Italian (fluent)","Portuguese (intermediate) · German (basic)"],"network":["Top Level Executives — global executive community, ~60,000 members across CEOs, VPs, Directors, and Entrepreneurs (founded 2006, ongoing)"],"operating_model":{"diagram":"```mermaid\nflowchart LR\n  User --> Sentinel\n  Sentinel --> Hera\n  Hera --> Memento\n  Hera --> Tools\n  Tools --> Apps\n  Argus --> Hera\n  Argus --> Sentinel\n  Argus --> Apps\n```","focus":"Platform components reused across every vertical: identity (Sentinel), reasoning (Hera), memory (Memento), runtime governance (Argus + OS-v3). New apps inherit the full stack instead of rebuilding it.","text":"Sovereign AI platform: local-first inference, persistent scoped memory, multi-agent orchestration, and multi-channel reach (web + Telegram + WhatsApp) sharing a single Rust runtime. Cloud is a failover, not the primary path."},"runtime_history":{"tier1":[{"company":"ImagineOS","display_tier":1,"duration":"Jan 2025 - Present","slug":"imagineos_founder","sort_order":0,"summary":"<ul><li>Shipped <strong>5 production AI applications on a single Rust architecture</strong> — compliance/contracts (Vetra), algorithmic trading (Latinos), healthcare membership (Movilo), ecotourism/biodiversity (Garcero), executive portfolio (paulovila.org) — all sharing one orchestration, memory, routing, and governance stack.</li><li>Reduced AI inference cost to <strong>$0 per query</strong> by deploying an on-premises GPU cluster (2× RTX 3090) for LLM, image generation (FLUX/ComfyUI), and multilingual embeddings — cloud APIs demoted to failover-only.</li><li>Deployed <strong>13 autonomous AI agents in 9 months</strong> with persistent scoped memory, semantic recall (multilingual embeddings), and multi-channel delivery (web, Telegram, WhatsApp) sharing one conversation context layer.</li><li>Built a <strong>zero-shot NLP pipeline</strong> (GLiNER + GLiREL + GLiClass on GPU) for knowledge graph construction — entity recognition, relation extraction, and sentiment classification without labeled training data or per-domain fine-tuning.</li><li>Implemented <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges</strong> for Hera and Memento, and a self-correcting agentic coding loop: Hera edits Rust source, runs cargo_check, and iterates until the build is clean — autonomously.</li><li>Engineered <strong>sub-millisecond IPC</strong> (1.019 ms avg, 1.136 ms p95 — 300×+ over prior Next.js stack) with automatic Postgres HA failover (~2 min RTO, RPO ≈ 0) via streaming replication and quorum witness.</li></ul>","tag":"AI Infrastructure & Leadership","title":"CEO & Founder"},{"company":"Mastercard","display_tier":1,"duration":"Sep 2022 – Jan 2025","slug":"mastercard_vp","sort_order":1,"summary":"<ul><li>Grew strategic engagement value <strong>10X</strong> and stood up <strong>3 new client innovation hubs</strong> by architecting and deploying design-thinking innovation products for key LAC enterprise accounts.</li><li>Cut innovation-workshop delivery <strong>from hours to minutes at 90%+ client satisfaction</strong> by developing and deploying local LLM expert agents — a repeatable, measurable ROI play.</li><li>Facilitated <strong>100+ C-suite Design Thinking sprints</strong> across Latin America — co-creating breakthrough products and transformation initiatives, each closing in under a week.</li></ul>","tag":"AI & Innovation Leadership","title":"Innovation - Digital Labs Vice President Latin America"}],"tier2":[{"company":"Mastercard","display_tier":2,"duration":"May 2019 – Sep 2022","slug":"mastercard_director","sort_order":2,"summary":"<ul><li>Drove a <strong>5X revenue increase</strong> for Labs as a Service across LAC by delivering <strong>60+ innovation projects at 90%+ client satisfaction</strong>.</li><li>Shipped two company firsts — 100% virtual innovation workshops and the <strong>first blockchain credit card</strong> — earning <strong>3 Mastercard President's Awards</strong>.</li></ul>","tag":"Innovation & Growth","title":"Labs as a Service - Innovation Director for Latin America"},{"company":"Mastercard","display_tier":2,"duration":"Jun 2017 – May 2019","slug":"mastercard_merchant","sort_order":3,"summary":"<ul><li>Owned full-lifecycle merchant consulting across Andean and Caribbean markets, from business development to delivery.</li><li>Built the <strong>first mission-based segmentation model</strong> for a major LAC client — adopted region-wide — unlocking new market insight and commercial opportunities.</li></ul>","tag":"Merchant Acquiring","title":"Andean + Caribbean Merchant Sales Director"},{"company":"Mastercard","display_tier":2,"duration":"Jul 2014 – Jun 2017","slug":"mastercard_consultant","sort_order":4,"summary":"<ul><li>Generated <strong>$100M+ in platform revenue within ~18 months</strong> by championing and launching a B2B credit-card sourcing platform as Andean Business Leader.</li><li>Enabled a Colombian neobank launch that reached <strong>1M+ users by end of 2020</strong> by supporting its commercial and product foundation.</li></ul>","tag":"Management Consulting","title":"Senior Managing Consultant"},{"company":"Partners in Performance","display_tier":2,"duration":"Aug 2013 – Jun 2014","slug":"pip_consulting","sort_order":5,"summary":"<ul><li>Delivered a <strong>$20M annual earnings swing (–$10M to +$10M) in 6 months</strong> at a silver-lead-tin mine by re-engineering the energy supply system, optimizing SAP spare-parts ordering, and leading union negotiations.</li></ul>","tag":"Strategy & Restructuring","title":"Senior Associate"}],"tier3":[{"company":"Hay Group (now Korn Ferry)","duration":"Apr 2011 – Aug 2013","legacy_metric":"$200M expansion roadmap","slug":"hay_group","title":"Senior Consultant"},{"company":"Carrefour","duration":"Oct 2009 – Mar 2011","legacy_metric":"200+ professionals led","slug":"carrefour","title":"Sales Development Director"},{"company":"Simplexity","duration":"Mar 2009 – Sep 2009","legacy_metric":"2-yr-late projects rescued","slug":"simplexity","title":"Software Development and Consulting Manager"},{"company":"The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)","duration":"Apr 2008 – Mar 2009","legacy_metric":"$30B+ merger","slug":"bcg","title":"Consultant"},{"company":"McKinsey & Company","duration":"Apr 2006 – Mar 2008","legacy_metric":"$20M+ synergies","slug":"mckinsey","title":"Associate Consultant"},{"company":"Top Level Executives","duration":"Jan 2006 – Present","legacy_metric":"60K-member community","slug":"top_level_execs","title":"Founder & Owner"},{"company":"data2web.com","duration":"Sep 2001 – Apr 2006","legacy_metric":"6 enterprise systems shipped","slug":"data2web","title":"CEO & Founding Partner"},{"company":"La Nota Económica","duration":"Feb 2000 – Sep 2001","legacy_metric":"New revenue lines created","slug":"la_nota_economica","title":"Chief Technology Officer"},{"company":"Universidad de los Andes","duration":"Jan 1998 – Sep 1999","legacy_metric":"5/5 teaching evals","slug":"uniandes_professor","title":"University Professor"},{"company":"Kaplan","duration":"Jan 1998 – Dec 2000","legacy_metric":"","slug":"kaplan","title":"GMAT Instructor"},{"company":"ROCHE","duration":"Sep 1996 – Dec 1997","legacy_metric":"13K+ doctors covered","slug":"roche","title":"Marketing Specialist"}]},"stack":{"AI / ML":"Generative AI, Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Systems, LLM Orchestration, RAG Pipelines, Vector Databases, On-Device / Edge Inference, MLOps, AI Governance, Responsible AI, AI/ML Strategy","Domain":"Fintech, Payments, Enterprise SaaS, Platform Strategy, Innovation & R&D, Emerging Markets (LatAm)","Leadership":"P&L Ownership, GTM Strategy, Product Roadmap, Cross-Functional Leadership, Change Management, Digital Transformation, OKRs, Executive Sprint Facilitation, Design Thinking","Technical":"Rust, Python, TypeScript, Linux, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP"},"system_architecture":{"diagram":"```mermaid\nflowchart TD\n  User --> Sentinel\n  Sentinel --> Hera\n  Hera --> Memento\n  Hera --> Tools\n  Tools --> Apps\n  Argus --> Hera\n  Argus --> Sentinel\n  Argus --> Apps\n  Apps --> Vetra\n  Apps --> Movilo\n  Apps --> Latinos\n  Apps --> ElGarcero\n  Apps --> PauloVila\n  subgraph Core Platform\n    Sentinel\n    Hera\n    Memento\n    Argus\n  end\n```","legend":["Sentinel — routing gateway and interaction layer","Hera — LLM orchestration and agent coordination","Memento — persistent memory and scoped data access","Argus — runtime and environment orchestration","OS-v3 — governance hub: tool/workflow registry, shared auth","Apps — vetra.trade, latinos.paulovila.org, movilo.club, elgarcero.com, paulovila.org"]},"ux_layer":["Every interface — web, Telegram, WhatsApp — talks to the same Hera runtime, so behavior, memory, and permissions stay consistent across channels. The user never knows which surface they're on; the platform does.","Design priority: time-to-daily-use over time-to-first-line. Tools must feel effortless at the moment of use, not just at the moment of building."]}