James Villarrubia
White House Presidential Innovation Fellow
Lee, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Villarrubia is a technical advisor and seasoned CTO-level leader with 11 years of experience delivering enterprise AI and cloud platforms that move beyond pilots into production at organizations ranging from NASA to venture-backed startups. He built MADI, one of NASA’s first enterprise generative AI platforms, co-authored NASA’s Responsible AI Policy, and drove portfolio-wide AI adoption and 99.9% platform reliability as a Global CTO for private equity-held companies. Known for stepping into high-stakes transformations, he combines deep technical chops in ML infrastructure, cloud, and agentic systems with pragmatic change management, governance, and operating-model design. His track record includes a 10x scale-up across 500+ hospitals in 30 days at CipherHealth and product-led exits and acquisitions in security and HR tech. An MIT Sloan MBA, Presidential Innovation Fellow, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and patent-holding inventor, he often works best as CTO, CPTO, or Chief AI Officer. Unusually for a systems-builder, he treats culture with the same rigor as code—believing organizational design is the primary determinant of AI success.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science with Honors, Bachelor's of Science with Honors at University of VirginiaJesuit High School of New Orleans
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Github Skills (200)
realtime10
websocket10
javascript10
browser10
bun10
api10
feathersjs10
application-framework10
typescript10
nodejs10
postman-collection10
react-native10
api-documentation10
editor9
markdown9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nasa-madi/madi-api
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 46 PRs, 357 pushes in 1 year 1 month
nasa-madi/madi-web
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Fast ChatGPT UI
Contributions:2 reviews, 105 PRs, 231 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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