Vitor Ventura
2026
Building an Agentic Framework from the Ground Up with Pi.dev: Fully Containerized Local AI Infrastructure
Agentic software engineering platforms are rapidly transforming how software is designed, built, tested, and operated. While many frameworks depend on cloud-hosted services and externally managed inference endpoints, organizations increasingly require complete ownership of their AI infrastructure for security, privacy, compliance, and cost control.
This workshop demonstrates how to build a fully self-hosted agentic development platform using Pi.dev, local large language models, and Docker-based isolation. The entire platform including Pi.dev orchestration, inference services, vector databases, memory service execution sandboxes, and development agents runs inside containers. Attendees will learn how to develop their own extensions giving them the freedom to build their own harness that fits their unique needs. Starting from a vanilla Pi.dev instance the workshop demonstrates how to evolve the platform to a fully agentic framework adaptable to the needs of each user. That can be used has a development environment or a framework that runs agentic pipelines from start to finish without user interaction.Â
Participants will learn how to build a complete autonomous development environment capable of:
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- Planning and decomposing software projects.
- Generating code using local LLMs.
- Executing code inside isolated containers.
- Running tests and validation workflows.
- Maintaining project memory and context.
- Coordinating multiple specialized agents.
- Operating entirely without external AI services.
About Vitor Ventura
Vitor Ventura is a Cisco Talos senior security researcher and Talos EMEA Outreach team manager. Over the last two years Vitor dedicated most of his time researching approaches for the application of Large Language Models into the CyberSecurity domain. For the MSc dissertation Vitor researched and implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system to perform analysis on cybersecurity open source reports.Â
Previously within the cybersecurity domain Vitor focused on the investigation of Private Sector Offensive Actors which led to several conference talks and publications on the Cisco Talos blog. He has investigated and published various articles on emerging threats, and biometric authentication both in face recognition and fingerprinting. At LABScon and PIVOTcon, Vitor delivered workshops on RAG usage for document processing and analysis. Vitor has presented in leading cyber security intelligence conferences like LABScon, PIVOTcon, VirusBulletin, CARO. Â Prior to that he was IBM X-Force IRIS European manager and lead responder. Before that he did offensive security on ICS and embedded systems at IBM X-Force Red. Vitor holds a MSc in Computer Science, a BSc in Computer Science and multiple security related certifications.
