Pauli Xu
Studied at Yale University
Works at Kaidas Solutions
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Work Experience
Chief of Staff
EIDU
September 2024 - September 2025
Global EdTech Nonprofit Serving Over 790K Students Annually I helped drive generative-AI adoption across a 120+ person organization: the training, the privacy policy, and coaching colleagues from skepticism to confident daily use.
Principal AI Consultant
Kaidas Solutions
June 2024 - Present
I run AI workshops and one-on-one coaching for founders, professionals, and nonprofit leaders — Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted workflows. I also build AI-powered prototypes and product management workflows for clients using Claude Code, React, and LLM APIs.
Senior Associate
bostonconsultinggroup.com
August 2020 - August 2024
I built analytical solutions in Python, Alteryx, Tableau, and Excel across healthcare, energy, and tech — and mentored technical and non-technical colleagues from beginner to independent.
Venture Capital Associate
Icebreaker
August 2018 - July 2020
$157M AUM Idea Stage & Pre-Seed Software Venture Capital I evaluated 1,000+ software startups, many in AI, and built AI screening automations that made our sourcing about 20× faster. I also coached startup founders on fundraising strategy, pitch development, and investor communications, supporting successful venture financings at over 10× the prior valuation
Undergraduate Research and Course Assistant
Yale University
September 2016 - May 2018
Publications in TAG+13 (Lead author) and NAACL 2018, evaluating our group's neural network parser I held office hours to 100+ students in CS50, the famous introductory computer science course, mentoring students in Python, C, algorithms, debugging, and software development fundamentals through hands-on instruction
Education
Yale University
M.A. in Religion, Liturgical Studies
2021 - 2023
Yale University
B.S., Double Major in Computer Science and Humanities with Distinction
2014 - 2018