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Victor Cuadros is a Principal Data Engineer at Microsoft, working on AI agents, data platforms, and distributed systems. His background spans cloud engineering, enterprise analytics, and founding a payments startup.

Victor Cuadros is a Principal Data Engineer at Microsoft, where he sets technical direction for data architecture in Copilot Studio. His work spans enterprise AI agents, language-model applications, distributed data platforms, and cloud reliability. Before Microsoft, he founded Kyklos, a payments and data analytics startup that was acquired by a private company. Based in Atlanta, Victor brings more than fourteen years of experience across software engineering, financial systems, and cloud platforms.

Victor Cuadros is a Principal Data Engineer at Microsoft, where he sets technical direction for data architecture in Copilot Studio. He works across AI agents, language-model applications, enterprise analytics, and the distributed systems that support them. His experience connects platform architecture with operational reliability, data quality, and cloud efficiency. Before joining Microsoft in 2022, Victor developed distributed applications at Picdmo and founded Kyklos, a payments and data analytics startup later acquired by a private company. At Kyklos, his work included high-transaction payment systems and banking switch migrations. His earlier career spans database engineering, enterprise applications, and telecommunications software in Ecuador. Victor holds a bachelor of science in Computer Software Engineering from Universidad Espíritu Santo and is a Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator. He won the Microsoft Global Hackathon in 2022 and 2023 and co-presented an AI-agent session at TechCon365 Atlanta in 2025. He is based in Atlanta and speaks English and Spanish.