Payabli Amigo
The AI agent suite inside Payabli's payments platform. Teams ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in live payment data.
- TypeScript
- LangGraph
- Claude Agent SDK
- MCP
- PostgreSQL
- ECS
Calgary, Canada
Victor Alencar
Principal Software Engineer, AI at Payabli. Founder of Crafted AI.
I build AI systems that hold up in production: multi-agent workflows, the gateways they route through, and the sandboxes that keep their code contained.
Now
At Payabli I'm building the AI layer of a payments platform from scratch: multi-agent workflows, MCP tooling and an internal AI gateway behind Amigo, used for risk analysis, fraud detection and merchant monitoring.
At Crafted AI I run the gateway and assistant platform other businesses put their agents on.
Before
14 years across fintech, genomics and SaaS. Risk engines and event-driven payments at Payrix/Worldpay, DNA sequencing pipelines at Helix, serverless video and scheduling at X-Team, cloud hosting at Acquia.
I started in Brazil building e-commerce and payments in Ruby.
Lately
Agent runtimes on AWS Bedrock AgentCore, running untrusted code in sandboxes and Firecracker microVMs, and the guardrails that let an agent act on real customer data.
I write up what works in field notes.
Career
2012 – now, 8 companies- Cebrace Software Development Analyst, Jul 2012 – Nov 2012
- Focusnetworks Full Stack Developer, Nov 2012 – Mar 2015
- OQVestir Software Engineer, Apr 2015 – Sep 2017
- Acquia Tech Lead, Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Mar 2017 – Sep 2019
- X-Team Senior Lead Software Engineer, Sep 2019 – Jun 2020
- Worldpay Senior Software Engineer, Jun 2020 – Mar 2023
- Helix Staff Software Engineer, Mar 2023 – Jul 2025
- Payabli Principal Software Engineer, AI, Jul 2025 – Present
Selected work
All workCrafted AI
AI infrastructure and engineering for production: a drop-in gateway for OpenAI and Anthropic, an assistant platform that runs on any channel, and forward-deployed engineers for the bespoke parts.
- TypeScript
- Express
- BullMQ
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- React 19
Coffee Box
A daily-coffee pass, launching first in Calgary. Members buy a pass, keep a QR code in Apple or Google Wallet, and redeem one coffee a day at Coffee Box vending machines.
- TypeScript
- Fastify
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- React Router 7
Latest writing
8 entries-
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The Factory — Cloud Agents, Cursor, Grok, and the Gates That Keep You Honest
How to run Cursor Cloud Agents and Grok as a product factory — and keep review, safety, security, and quality automated so speed does not become a shipping hazard.
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The Fleet — How to Actually Use AI as a Software Engineer
A practical playbook for going from "AI as autocomplete" to running a fleet — work loops, workflows, parallel subagents, and multiple Claude Code sessions across tmux panes.
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Building Company-Aware AI Agents on AWS Bedrock with AgentCore and MCP
How to build an agent on Bedrock AgentCore that connects to your company's tools over MCP, grounds itself in internal documents with a Knowledge Base, and ships as a quick Python chatbot.
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Using LLM Embeddings to Transform Risk Data Analysis
How embeddings work under the hood and how to leverage them to build intelligent, user-friendly outputs from your trained models and risk datasets.
Putting agents in front of real customers?
I help teams take AI from a prototype to something that survives production traffic, through Crafted AI or a direct conversation.