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AI PLATFORM ARCHITECT & TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE · LOCAL-FIRST MULTI-AGENT AI IN RUST · EX-MASTERCARD, BCG, MCKINSEY
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA — OPEN TO RELOCATION (GERMANY, UK, ITALY) AND TO REMOTE ROLES · paulo@paulovila.org · paulovila.org
linkedin.com/in/pvila · github.com/paulovilae
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Professional Summary

McKinsey → BCG → Carrefour → Mastercard → Imaginos

Technology executive and hands-on platform architect. 30 years designing, selling and delivering large multi-country technology programs across McKinsey, BCG, Carrefour and Mastercard — and today CEO and lead architect of a local-first, multi-agent AI platform written in Rust, running five production applications on one shared core. Over a decade at Mastercard scaling an innovation practice across Latin America: 10X growth in strategic engagement value, 5X revenue for Labs as a Service, 60+ client projects at 90%+ satisfaction, $100M+ in platform revenue, and 100+ C-suite design sprints that turned architectures into signed programs. The rare combination of the executive who owns the client relationship and the engineer who writes the runtime, in one person. M.S. Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes.

Operating Model

Built and operate ImagineOS — a sovereign AI runtime with five shared services: Hera (LLM orchestration & multi-agent systems), Memento (persistent memory), Sentinel (routing & identity), Argus (environment governance), and OS-v3 (platform registry). Powers five production applications across web, Telegram, and WhatsApp on a single Rust architecture. Local-first inference; cloud as failover only. Three operating modes: Engineering (Rust infrastructure, AI systems), Executive (P&L, strategy, GTM), Facilitation (C-suite sprints, design thinking).

Professional Experience
CEO & Founder — ImagineOS
Jan 2025 - Present
AI Infrastructure & Leadership

Self-funded platform: five applications running in production, not yet commercialized.

  • Own the end-to-end architecture of a multi-agent AI platform serving 5 production applications from one shared Rust core — orchestration, memory, routing, identity and runtime governance as shared services instead of per-application logic.
  • Cut AI inference cost to $0 per query, against $0.01–0.05 per request on cloud APIs, by deploying an on-premises GPU cluster (2x RTX 3090) for LLM, image generation and multilingual embeddings — cloud demoted to failover only.
  • Deployed 13 autonomous AI agents in 9 months with persistent scoped memory, semantic recall and multi-channel delivery (web, Telegram, WhatsApp) over one conversation context layer.
  • Engineered sub-millisecond IPC (1.019 ms average, 1.136 ms p95 — 300x+ over the prior Next.js stack) with automatic PostgreSQL high-availability failover (~2 min RTO, RPO ~ 0) via streaming replication and quorum witness.
  • Built a zero-shot NLP pipeline (GLiNER, GLiREL, GLiClass on GPU) for knowledge graph construction — entity recognition, relation extraction and sentiment classification with no labeled training data.
  • Implemented Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges and a self-correcting agentic coding loop: the runtime edits its own Rust source, runs the compiler and iterates until the build is clean.
professional mission

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.

Core Skills
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
network & affiliations
• M.S. (Master of Science) Industrial Engineering — Universidad de los Andes (1996 – 1998)
100% scholarship, thesis 5/5
• B.S. (Bachelor of Science) Mechanical Engineering — Universidad de los Andes (1990 – 1996)
thesis 5/5
• International Boarding School — Beau Soleil, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland (1984 – 1986)
credentials & awards
Stanford Machine Learning
Stanford University
Entrepreneurship
The Wharton School
CEO Force for Good Award
Mastercard, 2022 — women-led fintech LAC
CEO Force for Good Award
Mastercard, 2020 — Digital Datathon LAC (best in company)
President's Award × 3
Mastercard — selected from ~30K global employees
H.E.A.R.T Award
Mastercard, 2016
Pelt Sales Award — Top 5 Worldwide
Mastercard, 2016
languages
• Spanish (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (fluent)
• Italian (fluent)
• Portuguese (intermediate)
• German: Basic, actively improving
key achievements
Engineering
  • $0/query AI inference cost — on-prem GPU (2x 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) — 300x+ 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
Business
  • 10X growth in strategic engagement value as VP Digital Labs, Latin America
  • $100M+ B2B credit card sourcing platform at Mastercard (18 months)
  • Supported launch of Colombian neobank reaching 1M+ users
  • 5x revenue growth for Mastercard Labs-as-a-Service in LAC
  • 60+ innovation projects delivered, 90% client satisfaction
  • 100+ C-suite Design Thinking sprints facilitated across Latin America
  • 3 Mastercard President's Awards
Work Experience (continued)
Innovation - Digital Labs Vice President Latin America — Mastercard
Sep 2022 – Jan 2025
AI & Innovation Leadership
  • Grew strategic engagement value 10X and stood up 3 new client innovation hubs across Latin America by architecting and deploying design-thinking innovation products for key enterprise accounts.
  • Cut innovation-workshop delivery from hours to minutes at 90%+ client satisfaction by developing and deploying local LLM expert agents.
  • Facilitated 100+ C-suite Design Thinking sprints across the region, co-creating products and transformation initiatives that each closed in under a week.
  • Held the executive sponsor relationship at the region's largest banks, retailers and fintechs — the seat where scope, budget and renewal are decided.
Labs as a Service - Innovation Director for Latin America — Mastercard
May 2019 – Sep 2022
  • Drove a 5X revenue increase for Labs as a Service across LAC by delivering 60+ innovation projects at 90%+ client satisfaction.
  • Shipped two company firsts — 100% virtual innovation workshops and the first blockchain credit card — earning 3 Mastercard President's Awards.
  • Built the practice capability — methods, tooling and talent — that let delivery scale without proportional headcount growth.
Andean + Caribbean Merchant Sales Director — Mastercard
Jun 2017 – May 2019
  • Owned full-lifecycle merchant consulting across Andean and Caribbean markets, from business development to delivery.
  • Built the first mission-based segmentation model for a major LAC client — adopted region-wide — unlocking new market insight and commercial opportunities.
Senior Managing Consultant — Mastercard
Jul 2014 – Jun 2017
  • Generated $100M+ in platform revenue within ~18 months by championing and launching a B2B credit-card sourcing platform as Andean Business Leader.
  • Enabled a Colombian neobank launch that reached 1M+ users by end of 2020 by supporting its commercial and product foundation.
Senior Associate — Partners in Performance
Aug 2013 – Jun 2014
  • Delivered a $20M annual earnings swing (–$10M to +$10M) in 6 months at a silver-lead-tin mine by re-engineering the energy supply system, optimizing SAP spare-parts ordering, and leading union negotiations.
Earlier Experience
Senior Consultant @ Hay Group (now Korn Ferry)
$200M expansion roadmap
Apr 2011 – Aug 2013
Sales Development Director @ Carrefour
200+ professionals led
Oct 2009 – Mar 2011
Software Development and Consulting Manager @ Simplexity
2-yr-late projects rescued
Mar 2009 – Sep 2009
Consultant @ The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
$30B+ merger
Apr 2008 – Mar 2009
Associate Consultant @ McKinsey & Company
$20M+ synergies
Apr 2006 – Mar 2008
Founder & Owner @ Top Level Executives
60K-member community
Jan 2006 – Present
CEO & Founding Partner @ data2web.com
6 enterprise systems shipped
Sep 2001 – Apr 2006
Chief Technology Officer @ La Nota Económica
New revenue lines created
Feb 2000 – Sep 2001
University Professor @ Universidad de los Andes
5/5 teaching evals
Jan 1998 – Sep 1999
GMAT Instructor @ Kaplan
Jan 1998 – Dec 2000
Marketing Specialist @ ROCHE
13K+ doctors covered
Sep 1996 – Dec 1997
philosophy & approach

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.

Interactive version of this CV: paulovila.org
Tier 2: 0/4 Hera-cached, 4 compressing in background.
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