# Paulo Vila
## AI Platform Architect & Technology Executive · Local-First Multi-Agent AI in Rust · ex-Mastercard, BCG, McKinsey

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.

### 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)
<p><em>Self-funded platform: five applications running in production, not yet commercialized.</em></p><ul><li>Own the end-to-end architecture of a multi-agent AI platform serving <strong>5 production applications</strong> from one shared Rust core — orchestration, memory, routing, identity and runtime governance as shared services instead of per-application logic.</li><li>Cut AI inference cost to <strong>$0 per query</strong>, 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.</li><li>Deployed <strong>13 autonomous AI agents in 9 months</strong> with persistent scoped memory, semantic recall and multi-channel delivery (web, Telegram, WhatsApp) over one conversation context layer.</li><li>Engineered <strong>sub-millisecond IPC</strong> (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.</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 with no labeled training data.</li><li>Implemented <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges</strong> and a self-correcting agentic coding loop: the runtime edits its own Rust source, runs the compiler and iterates until the build is clean.</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> across Latin America by architecting and deploying design-thinking innovation products for key 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.</li><li>Facilitated <strong>100+ C-suite Design Thinking sprints</strong> across the region, co-creating products and transformation initiatives that each closed in under a week.</li><li>Held the executive sponsor relationship at the region's largest banks, retailers and fintechs — the seat where scope, budget and renewal are decided.</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><li>Built the practice capability — methods, tooling and talent — that let delivery scale without proportional headcount growth.</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. (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)