# Paulo Vila
## Architect of Local-First AI Systems | Rust AI Infrastructure | Former BCG · McKinsey · Mastercard

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>

### 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.

### Runtime History
#### CEO & Founder - ImagineOS (Jan 2025 - Present)
<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>

#### Innovation - Digital Labs Vice President Latin America - Mastercard (Sep 2022 – Jan 2025)
<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>

* **Labs as a Service - Innovation Director for Latin America — Mastercard** (May 2019 – Sep 2022): <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>
* **Andean + Caribbean Merchant Sales Director — Mastercard** (Jun 2017 – May 2019): <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>
* **Senior Managing Consultant — Mastercard** (Jul 2014 – Jun 2017): <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>
* **Senior Associate — Partners in Performance** (Aug 2013 – Jun 2014): <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>

### Legacy Stack
* Senior Consultant — Hay Group (now Korn Ferry) (Apr 2011 – Aug 2013)
* Sales Development Director — Carrefour (Oct 2009 – Mar 2011)
* Software Development and Consulting Manager — Simplexity (Mar 2009 – Sep 2009)
* Consultant — The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (Apr 2008 – Mar 2009)
* Associate Consultant — McKinsey & Company (Apr 2006 – Mar 2008)
* Founder & Owner — Top Level Executives (Jan 2006 – Present)
* CEO & Founding Partner — data2web.com (Sep 2001 – Apr 2006)
* Chief Technology Officer — La Nota Económica (Feb 2000 – Sep 2001)
* University Professor — Universidad de los Andes (Jan 1998 – Sep 1999)
* GMAT Instructor — Kaplan (Jan 1998 – Dec 2000)
* Marketing Specialist — ROCHE (Sep 1996 – Dec 1997)

### Education
* **M.S. Industrial Engineering** — Universidad de los Andes (1996 – 1998)
100% scholarship, thesis 5/5
* **B.S. Mechanical Engineering** — Universidad de los Andes (1990 – 1996)
thesis 5/5