Luis Villa is an American attorney and programmer who is Co-Founder and General Counsel for Tidelift.

He continued that work in his next job at Greenberg Traurig[2] where he was part of the team defending Google against Oracle's claims concerning Android.

[3][non-primary source needed] Prior to graduating from Columbia Law School in 2009, he was an employee at Ximian,[4] which was acquired by Novell in 2003.

He spent a year as a "senior geek in residence" at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society[5] working on StopBadware.org.

[8][9] In 2017 he co-founded Tidelift, which seeks to improve the ecosystem around open source software by providing support for professional teams using open source and helping maintainers build sustainable businesses around their projects.