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Alex Kugell

Co-Founder of Trio
With over 10 years of experience in software outsourcing, Alex has assisted in building high-performance teams before co-founding Trio with his partner Daniel. Today he enjoys helping people hire the best software developers from Latin America and writing great content on how to do that!

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Alex Kugell

How Fintechs Can Scale Engineering Cheaply and Sustainably
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How Fintechs Can Scale Engineering Cheaply and Sustainably in 2026

Scaling a fintech is not the same as scaling a general SaaS product. You’re dealing with finance, regulation, compliance, reputational risk, and...

Domain-Driven Design in Fintech
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Domain-Driven Design in Fintech: How DDD Helps You Build Architecture That Lasts in 2026

Fintech has become one of the most demanding parts of modern banking and digital retail. Customers want transfers to clear fast, balances...

Turing Alternatives for Fintech Teams
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Turing Alternatives for Fintech Engineering: Four Structural Constraints That Change the Calculation

Turing serves US and Canadian clients only, places full-time engineers exclusively, prices at $100–$200/hr, and uses AI-first matching without fintech domain evaluation....

21 min read

DevSecOps for Fintech: Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline Without Slowing Delivery

Developing quickly is one of the most effective ways to gain a competitive edge in fintech. If your development process takes months,...

11 min read

IT Staff Augmentation: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

IT staff augmentation describes when businesses rely on a form of outsourcing to meet their technical needs, adding to their staff structure...

18 min read

Fintech Team Augmentation: How to Scale Without Losing Control

Scaling software development teams in fintech can get quite messy. As your roadmap expands, bandwidth thins, hiring fintech developers becomes more difficult,...

Andela Alternatives for Fintech Engineering Staffing
14 min read

Andela Alternatives for Fintech Engineering

Andela’s generalist talent pool and AI-powered matching work well for general software engineering. But, for fintech specifically, it might not be a...

How a NYSE-listed digital bank removed the engineering bottleneck sowing its product team down
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How a NYSE-Listed Digital Bank Removed the Engineering Bottleneck Slowing Its Product Team Down

A publicly traded digital marketplace bank, one of the largest online lending platforms in the U.S., with over $10 billion in assets...

How a customer fintech serving 3M subscribers tackled nine engineering problems at once with Trio
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How a Consumer Fintech Serving 3 Million Subscribers Tackled Nine Engineering Problems at Once with Trio

In many real-world cases, several serious technical problems often end up accumulating simultaneously. While these issues might each be reasonable on their...

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