Nearshore Staff Augmentation

Your next engineer
is already part
of your team.

We embed senior engineers into your team — people who understand your stack, your pace, and your industry before writing a single line of code. Same timezone. Zero ramp-up theater.

Trusted by

The Caliber

The engineers
you'd try to hire.

Former Icalia engineers are now shipping at the companies shaping the industry — and brought that bar back home. It's who we hire. It's who we keep.

Shipping at

Meta Google Amazon Microsoft GitLab YC-backed startups Series A+ companies Founders & OSS maintainers
Senior+
Avg. experience level
<.4%
Applicant acceptance rate
5+ yrs
Avg. tenure at Icalia

Process

From first call to
embedded engineer.

Step 1

Tell us what
you need

Share your tech stack, team structure, and timeline. We map your culture and requirements in a single 30-minute call.

Step 2

Meet your
engineers

We present senior developers matched to your stack and team. You run the interviews. Your standards decide who joins.

Step 3

Start
building

Your new team members join your workflows, standups, and tools from day one. No ramp-up theater — they ship.

How We Operate

Engineering,
amplified by AI.

15 years of engineering practice, encoded into how we source, onboard, and ship. AI moves the work forward. Your engineers own the outcomes.

01 · Selection

The right engineer,
faster.

AI-assisted sourcing and matching across our vetted network. We screen for stack fit, product sense, and culture — in days, not weeks. You interview only the top of the top.

02 · Engagement

Day-one
productivity.

AI-powered onboarding accelerates context transfer — your codebase, conventions, product. Ongoing performance reviews, growth plans, and clean off-boarding are handled with the same rigor.

03 · Throughput

Ship more.
Ship better.

Modern AI tooling across the full dev loop: backlog refinement, coding, code review, testing, and refactoring. Your engineers bring taste. AI brings velocity.

Innovate, build, love.

Selected Work

Work that speaks
for itself.

All case studies →

Nearshore, Done Right

Mexico is your
gateway south.

Austin to Monterrey is a two-hour flight. Same business hours. Shared cultural fluency. And from Monterrey, the whole of Latin America's engineering talent comes into focus.

Same workday, zero handoffs
CST/CDT overlap with every US timezone. No async hacks.
Frictionless travel
Visit your team this week. USMCA-friendly contracting.
The LatAm talent hub
Monterrey anchors our reach across Mexico and Latin America.
Austin, TX US HQ Monterrey, MX Engineering Hub · The Gateway LatAm reach CST · Same business hours

Credentials

The receipts,
not just the pitch.

Y Backed

YC alum co-founders

Founding team previously backed by Y Combinator. We know how your investors think.

First Docker-certified in LatAm

The first consultancy in Latin America to earn Docker certification. Infrastructure fluency built in.

GitHub Partner · LatAm

Recognized GitHub Partner in Latin America. Deep roots in the developer ecosystem.

5,000+ Open Source stars

Active OSS maintainers. Our public repos have earned 5K+ cumulative GitHub stars.

AI-native operation. Founders who've built, shipped, and sold — now investing that experience in your team.

15+

years building software

"We started in 2011 with a simple belief: World-class software teams can be built anywhere, and nearshore engineers have the unfair advantage of delivering the same output as any other US engineer."
Same bar, different industries Fintech · Healthtech · eCommerce · Logistics

Ready to scale
your team?

Tell us what you're building. We'll show you who can help.