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Co-Founder & COO · NeuronHire
Lucas Salvaia is the Co-Founder and COO of NeuronHire, a recruiting firm that connects LATAM engineers with global tech companies. He works closely with engineers throughout the hiring process, from interview prep to offer signing and has helped dozens of Latin American developers land remote roles at US startups. Before NeuronHire, he spent six years at EY leading audit engagements across multiple industries. He holds a degree in Economics from UNICAMP and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Roles You Can Hire
All rolesAgentic AI Engineers
Agentic AI Engineers
Hire pre-vetted Agentic AI Engineers from Latin America. LangGraph, tool use, autonomous workflows. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
AI Automation Engineers
AI Automation Engineers
Hire pre-vetted AI Automation Engineers from Latin America. n8n, Make, Zapier, LLM workflows, document processing. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
AI Engineers
AI Engineers
Hire pre-vetted senior AI engineers from Latin America. LLMs, RAG, LangChain, vector databases, production AI. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
AI Infrastructure Engineers
AI Infrastructure Engineers
Hire pre-vetted AI Infrastructure Engineers from Latin America. GPU clusters, vLLM, inference serving, Kubernetes. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
AI Orchestration Engineers
AI Orchestration Engineers
Hire pre-vetted AI Orchestration Engineers from Latin America. LangGraph, Airflow, LLM pipelines, workflow reliability. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
AI Platform Engineers
AI Platform Engineers
Hire pre-vetted AI Platform Engineers from Latin America. ML platforms, internal AI tooling, developer experience. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Analytics Engineers
Analytics Engineers
Hire pre-vetted senior Analytics Engineers from Latin America. dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, data modeling. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Backend Developers
Backend Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior backend developers from Latin America. Node.js, Python, Java, Go expertise. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Business Intelligence Analysts
Business Intelligence Analysts
Hire pre-vetted senior BI Analysts from Latin America. Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL, data modeling. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Cloud Architects
Cloud Architects
Hire pre-vetted senior cloud architects from Latin America. AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud, FinOps. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Cloud Engineers
Cloud Engineers
Hire pre-vetted senior cloud engineers from Latin America. AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes. 7-day match, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
CTOs / Fractional CTOs
CTOs / Fractional CTOs
Hire a pre-vetted fractional CTO from Latin America. Technical strategy, team building, architecture oversight. 7-day match, 30–50% below US executive rates.
Technologies We Vet For
All technologiesApache Airflow Developers
Hire pre-vetted Apache Airflow engineers from Latin America. DAGs, workflow orchestration, Astronomer, MWAA. 7-day match SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
Android Development with Kotlin Developers
Android Development with Kotlin Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior Android Kotlin developers from Latin America. Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Coroutines. 7-day match SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
Angular Developers
Angular Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior Angular developers from Latin America. Angular 17+, TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx. 7-day match SLA, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Developers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior AWS engineers from Latin America. EC2, EKS, Lambda, Terraform, cloud architecture. 7-day match SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
Microsoft Azure Developers
Microsoft Azure Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior Azure engineers from Latin America. AKS, Azure DevOps, Bicep, Terraform. 7-day match SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
Claude Code Developers
Claude Code Developers
Hire pre-vetted Claude Code engineers from Latin America. Agentic workflows, MCP integrations, CI/CD automation. 7-day match SLA, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
CrewAI Developers
CrewAI Developers
Hire pre-vetted CrewAI engineers from Latin America. Multi-agent crews, role-based AI agents, LangChain integration. 7-day match SLA, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Databricks Developers
Hire pre-vetted Databricks engineers from Latin America. Delta Lake, Spark, Unity Catalog, MLflow. 7-day match SLA, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
dbt Developers
Hire pre-vetted dbt engineers from Latin America. dbt Core, dbt Cloud, data modeling, Snowflake, BigQuery. 7-day match SLA, top 1% vetted, 30–50% below US rates.
Docker Developers
Docker Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior Docker engineers from Latin America. Containerization, Docker Compose, multi-stage builds, CI/CD. 7-day SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
.NET / C# Developers
.NET / C# Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior .NET C# developers from Latin America. ASP.NET Core, Azure, microservices, EF Core. 7-day match SLA, 30–50% below US rates.
Elasticsearch Developers
Elasticsearch Developers
Hire pre-vetted senior Elasticsearch engineers from Latin America. Search, ELK stack, observability, vector search. 7-day SLA, 30–50% below US rates.