@renato-marinho

Renato Marinho

Software entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience building software and infrastructure. Founder of Vinkius, an AI Connectivity Cloud that enables AI agents to securely interact with apps, data, and services.

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Building Vinkius, an AI Connectivity Cloud for AI agents, with a focus on infrastructure, connectivity, and real-world execution.

What I build

Vinkius is an AI Connectivity Cloud. I build the infrastructure that lets AI agents securely interact with apps, APIs, databases, SaaS tools, and internal systems through a unified connectivity layer. AI helps me build the product, architecture, infrastructure, integrations, and agent workflows.

Agents & harnesses

  • Vinkius Agent Desktop: Run AI agents, connect them to real capabilities, and observe their actions and execution.

Apps

  • GitHub: Source code, repositories, issues, pull requests, and releases.
  • AWS: Cloud infrastructure and services.
  • Cloudflare: Edge infrastructure and networking.
  • Stripe: Billing and payments.
  • Slack: Team communication and operational workflows.

Models

  • Claude: Coding, architecture, reasoning, and agent development.
  • GPT: Research, reasoning, product development, and technical work.
  • Gemini: Fast reasoning, experimentation, and development.

Terminal

  • Windows Terminal + PowerShell: Daily development, Git, Docker, AWS, and system operations.

Machines

  • Windows workstation: Main development and AI environment.
  • AWS infrastructure: Runs Vinkius services, connectors, and execution workloads.

Subscriptions & costs

  • Vinkius: AI connectivity infrastructure and services.
  • AWS: Cloud infrastructure.

Skills

  • Software Architecture: Designing distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and agentic systems.
  • AI Agent Development: Building agents that can discover and execute real capabilities.
  • MCP: Designing and operating Model Context Protocol infrastructure.

MCP connections

  • Vinkius MCP Catalog: Discover and work with thousands of AI Connections and their capabilities.
  • GitHub: Manage repositories, issues, pull requests, and releases.
  • AWS: Work with cloud infrastructure through AI.
  • Stripe: Manage customers, payments, and subscriptions.
  • Slack: Read and send messages and manage workspace operations.

Vinkius currently provides thousands of managed AI Connections and tens of thousands of capabilities across apps, APIs, databases, SaaS tools, and internal systems.

How I work

I start with a real problem, use AI to research and reason about the solution, build and iterate quickly, then verify the result through code, execution, tests, and real-world behavior. For agentic work, the agent discovers the required capabilities through Vinkius, executes the actions through governed connections, and I verify the resulting state.