Javier Tordable is the Founder and CEO of Pauling.AI, a company building the first fully autonomous drug discovery platform—enabling scientists to go from a research idea to validated drug molecules in days, not years, by orchestrating integrated computational pipelines through a conversational AI agent that requires no computational chemistry expertise.
Before founding Pauling.AI, Javier built a sixteen-year career at Google—joining in 2008 and rising to staff engineer across Webmaster Tools, Google Ads, supply chain infrastructure, and the Office of the CTO, where he spent seven years as a technical director partnering with Nintendo, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, and the world's largest cloud customers. Before Google, he arrived at Microsoft as a lone intern from Spain in 2005—the only person they hired from his country that year.
At Pauling.AI, Javier is attacking the core inefficiency of drug discovery by automating the entire in silico workflow using language models and agentic systems, collapsing months-long computational chemistry campaigns into days. Named after Linus Pauling—the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes—the company reflects a conviction that first-principles engineering can be turned on one of science's most consequential problems.
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