Notes on building software for businesses and hiring senior engineers in Latin America. Written by Leonardo Alvarado, founder of Softronic.
The real difference is who manages the day-to-day work. When staff augmentation, a dedicated team or outsourcing fits, and how each one goes wrong.
Leonardo Alvarado 6 min read Billing is where RAG gets checked: the customer is holding the invoice. How corrective RAG, account lookups and a clean human handoff fit on WhatsApp.
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Why I don't publish a retention rate, the four things that decide whether a placed engineer stays, and what to check with any vendor before you sign.
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Eight questions to ask any nearshore development partner before you sign, what a good answer sounds like, and the answers that should end the call.
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The questions I use to vet senior engineers across live coding, systems design and communication, what a good answer sounds like, and what fails.
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What Toptal, Andela, Turing, Lemon.io, Revelo, BEON.tech and South sell today, how each vets engineers, and when a founder-led shop fits better.
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Paying for hours vs paying for results: how outcome-based pricing moves risk to the vendor, where it works, where it fails and what to put in the contract.
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An AI-built app works in the demo and fails in production. What usually breaks, the order I check it in, and what to fix this week if you already shipped.
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The three interviews and the paid probation every senior engineer goes through before joining a client team, and why I run each one myself.
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Nearshore LatAm vs offshore, compared on what decides the bill: time-zone overlap, rework, turnover and IP ownership. Public data, no vendor math.
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