THE AGILITYFEAT BLOG
Welcome to the AgilityFeat blog, where we share our expertise in building high-performing nearshore software development teams and optimizing remote collaboration. Discover practical insights, industry perspectives, and proven strategies to not only scale your tech team but help it thrive.
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Product Modernization Through Nearshore Software Development and Staffing: An AgilityFeat Success Story
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...
How to Quickly Build a High-Performing Software Team in Latin America
Latin America has quickly emerged as a top destination for building software teams due to its skilled tech talent, cultural alignment with North American companies, and favorable time zones. Countries like Colombia, Panama, and Mexico...
Automating Translation Workflows: AI as an Engineering Multiplier
As a nearshore software engineer at AgilityFeat, I believe AI should be treated as an engineering multiplier, not just a novelty. When we automate the tedious parts of development, we unlock time for deeper work, cleaner code, and...
Building Scalable DevOps Infrastructure: Why Growing Teams Need Specialized Expertise
Building scalable DevOps infrastructure is one of the most critical yet underestimated challenges facing growing tech companies. As engineering teams expand beyond the startup phase, the deployment systems that once seemed perfectly...
Building Production-Ready LLM Applications with Nearshore Teams: From Generative AI to Voice Agents
At AgilityFeat and our subsidiary, WebRTC.ventures, we’ve been building innovative, production-ready software for over 15 years. Today, we also help clients in education, telehealth, e-commerce, and beyond harness the power of Large...
Nearshore Developer Spotlight: Julio González, Frontend Developer
At AgilityFeat, we believe that the best developers don’t just follow specs. They think ahead, automate where they can, and build solutions that make their teams stronger. That’s exactly who Julio González is. A Senior Frontend Engineer...
Why Cali, Colombia Should Be on Your Nearshoring Radar
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in Cali, Colombia, attending an event organized by ProColombia and a series of meetings set up for our by Invest Pacific. These meetings were all focused on the benefits of establishing...
AgilityFeat CEO on the LatAm FDI Podcast Discussing Accessing Nearshore Tech Talent
I was honored to recently be featured on the LATAM FDI podcast in a conversation with host Steven Colantuoni. The episode focused on strategies for accessing nearshore technical talent in Latin America and the evolving landscape for U.S....
What Is Staff Augmentation and Why Does It Work So Well in Latin America?
Scaling a software team quickly is one of the biggest challenges for growing tech companies. With high developer salaries and fierce competition for talent in the US, many companies struggle to find the right engineers at the right time....
AgilityFeat Ops Manager Launches AI Tinkerers Panama Chapter
We’re proud to share that Rafael Amberths, AgilityFeat’s Panama Operations Manager, has launched an AI Tinkerers Panama chapter. AI Tinkerers is a global, curated network of AI professionals, researchers, and innovators hosting events in...
Colombia’s Top Cities for Tech Talent & AI Development: Bogotá, Medellín, Cali & Barranquilla
As the Colombia Operations Manager for AgilityFeat's nearshore staffing and software development services, I’ve had the opportunity to closely observe how technology is taking a leading role in the development of various regions of the...
From Frustration to Transformation: Why Enterprise Leaders Should Partner with AgilityFeat
I recently attended UXDX USA 2025 in New York. As I talked to various Product Owners, I thought to myself: If I were a manager in a large enterprise right now, I’d probably be pretty frustrated. Not because large enterprises lack smart...
The Rise of Micro-Centers: Why SMEs are Establishing Nearshore Hubs
Small and mid-sized businesses with 100, 50, or even just 20 employees are now doing something that used to require Fortune 500 budgets and infrastructure: they’re launching remote subsidiaries. What was once the exclusive territory of...
A Modern Approach to Tech Interviews: Embrace AI Instead of Fighting It
The tech industry is facing a hiring paradox. While engineering teams increasingly rely on AI tools like GitHub Copilot’s AI Pair Programmer and ChatGPT’s AI Coding Assistant to code smarter and faster, many companies are desperately...
Large-Scale Nearshore Staffing: An AgilityFeat 13-Year Success Story
In December 2012, AgilityFeat received a call from a logistics software company looking for a team that could build a proof of concept for an innovative real-time data dashboard. This was the beginning of a business relationship that has...
FinTech Nearshoring: Why a LATAM Build Operate Transfer Model Beats Traditional Outsourcing
Scaling a FinTech technical team quickly, without compromising the critical priorities of operational control, security, compliance, or capacity for innovation, is essential. Latin America offers compelling cost advantages and excellent...
Invest in AI People, Not Just AI Projects
AI is advancing at an astonishing pace—especially with the rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs). It seems like every few weeks there's a new breakthrough, new tools, or new best practices. For software leaders, this pace can...
Connecting with Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders in Panama
On May 14, 2025, as part of our ongoing collaboration efforts with local institutions in Panama, I had the opportunity to represent AgilityFeat at the first 2025 Job Fair organized by the Faculty of Computer Systems Engineering at the...
Stop Designing for AI. Design for Humans First.
As AI-driven tools become embedded in everything from chat interfaces to search engines, a new UX temptation has emerged: designing primarily for the machine. We see interfaces stripped down for AI consumption, user flows restructured to...
Advancing Our LLM Expertise: An Intensive Workshop with John Berryman
At AgilityFeat and WebRTC.ventures, delivering advanced Large Language Model (LLM) solutions has quickly become a key growth area for our business. To maintain our edge in this rapidly evolving field, our expert team is dedicated to...
Trust Through Presence: Combating AI Noise with In-Person Tech Hiring in Latin America
The tech hiring market is facing a growing disconnect. While remote teams have opened the doors to global talent, it has also brought a new challenge: an influx of candidates using AI to inflate their resumes, complete coding challenges,...
“This Backend Role Has Been Open for Months” – Here’s How It’s Hurting Your Entire Team (and How to Fix It)
If you've ever had a critical backend role sit open for months, you're not alone. It's a common challenge we hear from tech leaders: “We’ve had a position open for a while but we just can’t seem to find the right person. We do have...
What Is a Prompt Engineer Tester—and Why Your Team Might Need One
Recently, we’ve all been thrown into a crash course in prompting AI, learning how to ask chatbots the right questions to get the output we want. But there's a gap between casual prompting and integrating an LLM into a production-grade...
How Hackathons Drive Innovation and Team Bonding in Dev Teams
Recently, members of our AgilityFeat and WebRTC.ventures teams gathered in Panamá for an AI training session. Although we’ve already helped multiple clients build successful AI-powered products, we wanted to establish best practices that...
Using the Lean Penny Flipping Game to Demonstrate Lean Principles
You’ve probably heard before that if you multitask too much, you are not really accomplishing anything. This is especially true for software development teams, which often face multiple stakeholders pushing conflicting priorities—each...