Luis Villa
Vice President, Legal Product And Policy at University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuis Villa is a lawyer and executive who blends 13 years of legal and product experience with deep roots in open source community building and early software engineering. As VP of Legal: Product and Policy at Sonar and former co-founder/general counsel of Tidelift, he counsels high-growth teams at the intersection of code quality, AI, and open source governance. His background spans shaping major open source licenses at Mozilla, steering community strategy and multi-million dollar grantmaking at Wikimedia, and advising Fortune 50s on how to monetize and sustain open projects. Based in San Francisco, he also teaches and advises on AI and open policy at UC Law SF, bringing academic rigor to practical product decisions. Notably, his career began in hands-on engineering and QA for the Linux desktop, giving him rare empathy for developer workflows that informs his legal and product work.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, BA Political Science at Duke UniversityJD, JD at Columbia Law School
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Github Skills (128)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tieguy/innovators-patent-agreement
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:33 commits in 4 months
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tieguy/OSM-collabmark.org
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:103 commits, 33 PRs, 97 pushes in 5 months
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