Most teams start agentic development the same way: one chat window, one long session, and one agent asked to plan the feature, write the code, and confirm the code is good. It feels efficient. It also repeats one of the oldest mistakes in...
In February 2013, AgilityFeat began working with a U.S.-based edtech company that builds certification tools and professional development products for teachers. That engagement has grown into a partnership now in its 13th year. The...
We spent the last several months building a hands-on series covering AWS CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, published on AWS Builder Center. It contains seven posts, each with working AWS CloudFormation templates, CLI commands you...
Most AI product development stories involve a proof of concept that takes months to graduate into something real. CETA Global didn't have that runway. They had a Google Accelerator demo in December 2025, a vision for an AI product that...
Adapted from Issue #6 of LatAm AI Engineering Updates, our newsletter on funding, acquisitions, and AI talent news from Latin America, published by AgilityFeat CEO Arin Sime. If you want this kind of analysis in your inbox before it...
Justin Williams is an AgilityFeat Senior WebRTC Engineer. Want to work with great nearshore engineers like Justin? Get in touch. I work primarily in the terminal, running agentic coding tools as my daily driver for everything from...
Early in one of AgilityFeat's staff augmentation projects, a sharp SRE flagged in standup that he wasn't sure his sprint was worth reviewing. The work had been entirely infrastructure. Nothing visible, nothing a user would notice. He'd...
At AgilityFeat, we look for engineers who solve real production problems, whether they’re part of a staff augmentation team or our internal nearshore team. This post shows how one engineer confronted the confusing behavior of npm...
Engineering leaders are being asked to navigate something genuinely new. Not just a technology upgrade, and not just another platform shift. Instead, we face a fundamental change in how software gets built, who builds it, and what it...
For more than 15 years, AgilityFeat has helped companies build software across Latin America. As AI reshapes how products are built, we created something new: Builder Pods. These are small, senior, AI-native nearshore squads designed for...
Most companies struggle when scaling engineering teams because hiring is often treated as a sourcing activity rather than an alignment process. Speed becomes the primary objective, while ownership expectations, tenure patterns, and...
When the conversation turns to AI, the lens almost always points westward. To San Francisco, Palo Alto, or to the handful of hyperscalers dominating the headlines. It's an understandable bias. But it's also an increasingly expensive one....
In fintech and other regulated industries, technology decisions carry higher stakes than in most software domains. Systems must process financial transactions accurately, remain available under heavy load, and comply with strict...
Integrating AI development tools like Cursor, Cline, and GitHub Copilot into your software development workflow promises speed and productivity. But without best practices, it can also create security vulnerabilities, technical debt, and...
Want to work with great nearshore engineers like Andrea? Get in touch. AI code generation transformed how quickly my teams could ship features. We went from week-long implementations to same-day deployments. The velocity was real and...
One of the hardest questions companies face is when to scale a development team. Scale too soon, and you'll burn runway on hiring, onboarding, and building features the market hasn't validated yet. Scale too late, and competitors—or your...
Today's innovation economy is in the midst of a full-scale talent war to hire LLM engineers and AI specialists who can build real-world software products powered by advanced AI capabilities. This isn't just about developers who use AI...
Modern engineering teams are recalibrating how they deliver software by balancing speed, safety, and culture. In The Evolution of DevOps: Automation, Scale, and the AI Frontier (Episode 59 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, proudly sponsored by...
Building an investable AI startup requires more than just a great idea. It requires the right team and the right execution. Investors are asking tough questions about profitability, defensibility, and scalability. And increasingly, your...
Let me tell you a brief history. In 2019, we started a nearshore software development relationship with a client in the chemical sustainability industry. This 20-year-old SaaS company helps organizations understand and manage the...
When companies think about nearshoring and tech talent, the first thought is often developers. But the truth is, building a strong nearshore team isn’t just about recruiting talent for short term projects. It’s about making sure that the...
At AgilityFeat, we know that quality assurance is not just about finding bugs, it’s about making products more reliable, usable, and enjoyable for customers. That’s why we’re excited to spotlight Nicolás Guido, a senior nearshore QA...
At AgilityFeat, we’re proud to work with nearshore software developers who don’t just write code, they design systems that deliver meaningful value for users and businesses. One great example is Michel Azevedo, a senior engineer from...
In December 2012, AgilityFeat received a call from an experienced entrepreneur in the logistics industry seeking a team to build a proof of concept for an innovative real-time data dashboard. This marked the beginning of a business...
In 2018, AgilityFeat partnered with a rising innovator in the chemical data industry to support their product modernization goals. The client needed a flexible, cost-effective way to evolve its sophisticated data analysis platform and...