AI ENGINEERING · MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA

Santiago Blanco Vílchez

Head of AI Engineering at Soluntech / Solutions Architect / Product Builder

I build systems for environments where complexity is real.

I lead AI engineering at Soluntech. My work turns distributed workflows, fragile integrations and AI capabilities into systems that stay clear, observable and reliable in production. Every claim here links to the decision behind it.

Explore in the atlas: Cutline
15 yearsbuilding software and systems
AI + cloud + dataarchitecture through implementation
Head of AI EngineeringSoluntech · current role

STACK I BUILD WITH

Each logo opens the work where it was used.

SELECTED WORK

Systems I've
built.

Different domains. A consistent approach: make the difficult parts explicit, then build for the conditions a system will actually face.

FEATURED SYSTEM / 01ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Agent systems

ForgeAI↗

Autonomous engineering infrastructure

A supervised platform for turning scoped engineering tasks into reviewed code changes.

PythonKubernetesHelmGitHub ActionsPlane
Explore case study ↗
SELECTED COMPONENTPlane backlog

Source of truth for task state, acceptance criteria, and role labels.

Forge task board with run history and verification status
ACTUAL PRODUCT VIEW / FORGEThe work has a trace.

A bounded task, its execution and its check result are visible together in the Forge interface.

Inspect the case study ↗
Bounded executionReviewable evidenceHuman approval
02 / Product architecture↗
Public Clara Care product screenshot showing a clinical form beside the recording and transcription widget with sample information.
Team-built product

Clara Care

A healthcare product connecting application workflows, cloud services, and AI-assisted interaction.

03 / Product engineering↗
Cutline editor showing a video preview, script steps, editing controls, and a multitrack timeline.
Working product

Cutline

A browser-based video studio that joins AI scripting, speech, media processing, and export.

04 / AI + data↗
Proof of concept

Agent Private Credit

An agent workspace that pairs natural-language exploration with deterministic financial analytics.

05 / Cloud + data↗
Professional work

Cloud data systems

Selected architecture work across message-driven services and cloud analytics pipelines.

PUBLIC CODE / EARLIER WORKVueInstant

A Vue 2 autocomplete component published as open source. A direct look at product engineering work beyond client engagements.

View repository ↗

SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE / 01

Living Architecture.

Explore the relationship between projects and engineering domains. Open a system to inspect its components, decisions, and execution path.

SBV / SYSTEM ATLAS05 PROJECTS · 04 DOMAINS
ARCHITECTUREIdeas → systems
→ products
SANTIAGO BLANCO VÍLCHEZ
AI SYSTEMSCLOUD / PLATFORMDATA ENGINEERINGPRODUCT ENGINEERING
Relationships indicate documented engineering domains, not runtime traffic.
ALL SYSTEMS / DIRECT ACCESS
01 / CONSTELLATION02 / SYSTEM MODEL03 / EXECUTION

Keyboard accessible · Motion can be paused · Reduced motion respected

ENGINEERING NOTES

The reasoning
behind the work.

Three decisions drawn from documented projects. Each opens the precise decision or case study behind it.

EXPERIENCE & IMPACT

Built across
the stack.

From enterprise applications and infrastructure to AI engineering leadership: fifteen years building systems that have to work.

2022 — PRESENT

Head of AI Engineering Soluntech

I moved from DevOps and product innovation into AI engineering leadership. I lead Clara Care’s solution architecture within the team, built asynchronous processing and cloud analytics workflows, and earlier owned scaling, CI/CD and production observability. I was responsible for building a HIPAA-compliant platform and worked on the implementation of ISO 27001.

01
2022

Manager of Research Solutions Iota Impact

Developed traffic analysis tools and market intelligence dashboards for metaverse platforms.

02
2021

DevOps Instructor Pronoide

Designed and delivered Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS training.

03
2011 — 2021

Software & data engineering Selected roles and engagements

Built enterprise workflows, BI and GIS applications, and forecasting interfaces, including work at Mantum and Universidad de Antioquia.

04
0.60 → 0.95
CLIENT PLATFORM / APDEX

A team result on a client platform serving about 30,000 users, after work that included SQS-based asynchronous processing.

CONTEXTS

  • Healthcare

    Responsible for building a HIPAA-compliant platform; Clara Care’s identity and live clinical workflows.

  • Energy

    GIS applications for the National Hydrocarbons Agency and energy cost models.

  • Multi-client consulting

    Architecture and delivery across client engagements at Soluntech.

  • Education

    Education GIS work and Docker, Kubernetes and AWS training.

DATA / INTELLIGENCE

From raw events
to useful signal.

My specialization in Big Data & Business Intelligence informs how I design pipelines: preserve provenance, make transformations inspectable, and connect analysis to decisions.

Big Data & Business Intelligence specialization · Universidad Católica Luis Amigó · 2019
FIG. 04 / ANALYTICAL SYSTEMSGENERATIVE STUDY · NO CLIENT DATA
Illustrative data transformationSynthetic points reorganize from raw events into groups and a rising signal. No real project or client data is shown.INPUTOUTPUT →
X: SYSTEM STAGE / Y: OBSERVED PATTERN

Capture the shape of an incoming stream.

ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY

Complexity should be engineered, not celebrated.

AI should extend engineering capability, while judgment remains accountable. Systems should be observable, testable, and understandable. Architecture earns its place when it survives real use.

SANTIAGO BLANCO VÍLCHEZ

THE LABORATORY

Always
building.

Experiments are where a technical hypothesis meets implementation. Current areas include autonomous engineering workflows, local speech and model inference, generative media, and agent interfaces.

AUTONOMOUS AGENTSLOCAL INFERENCEGENERATIVE VIDEODEVELOPER TOOLS

These are areas of ongoing work, separate from the case studies above.

CONTACT

Let's talk
about systems.

Architecture, AI systems or a question about this work: write to me directly.

Portrait of Santiago Blanco Vílchez