Paulo Vila

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 1.019 ms average warm-path latency (1.136 ms p95, TTFB) — over 300x faster than 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Cut FTE requirements 10% for two major oil pipelines in under two months by running Building Effective Organizations sprint workshops for the LAC practice.
• Surfaced $200M in projected sales upside by facilitating strategy workshops that filtered 60 expansion opportunities down to 5 core initiatives.

• Directed a 200+ person pricing division executing real-time pricing strategy for Colombia's second-largest retailer.
• Orchestrated end-to-end new store openings, from site selection through operational readiness.

• Rescued two logistics software projects running more than two years behind schedule.
• Sold and delivered the creation of a PMO office at Fidubogotá, Colombia's largest fiduciary.

• Played a key analytical role delivering a $30B+ cross-border merger between two major food companies in the Mexican market.
• Identified $10M in annual savings for a world-class manufacturing multinational through cost-reduction analysis.

• Achieved $20M+ in synergy savings providing analytical support on a multi-billion-dollar telecom merger.
• Contributed to a new branch model deployment and the strategic launch of an IP-video portal for leading LAC clients.

• Founded and still run a global executive community of nearly 60,000 members — CEOs, VPs, Directors and Entrepreneurs — built over 19+ years from zero, with no institutional funding, alongside the full-time roles below.
• Operates as a standing channel for executive recruitment, strategic networking and career advancement.

• Founded and led a technology venture that shipped six bespoke enterprise systems for corporate and government clients: Siemens (intranet portal), CREEL — Mexico's largest law firm (legal archive), BASC (certification management), Contraloría de Cundinamarca (case tracking), Zientte (production control) and POST-MARKETING/FedEx (logistics tracking).

• Transformed the business model by opening new income sources.
• Started a software development group delivering intranets, knowledge management and CMS for Siemens and Nera Telecommunications — plus database publishing systems, banner management software and a full virtual community platform.

• Redesigned and taught the Systems Thinking course for 50 undergraduates, earning perfect 5/5 student evaluations; directed 6 theses.
• Designed and supervised three Industrial Engineering Business Fairs — 75+ business ideas presented to 3,500 visitors.

• Taught Kaplan's GMAT course in Colombia, preparing candidates for graduate business school admissions.

• Built a cost-analysis system (Visual Basic/Excel) measuring promotion costs of 40 pharmaceutical products marketed by 120 salespeople to 13,000+ doctors — adopted as the budgeting tool across ROCHE's pharmaceutical divisions in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.