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Connecting Talent. Building Teams

Every team deserves the best talent. We help businesses like yours build dream teams.

Forget the Hiring Struggle. We Build Dream Teams

Born from Product Teams, Built for Startups. Alvorada started inside a fast-growing US startup, where our founding team — a group of senior Brazilian engineers — kept getting asked to recommend more talent from back home.

The fit was undeniable: strong engineering culture, overlapping time zones, and incredible value. Eventually, the demand was too big to ignore — so we turned it into a business.

Today, Alvorada connects startups with Brazil's best engineers, vetted by people who’ve actually led high-growth teams.

Fixing what's broken in hiring

We connect companies and developers directly — no middlemen, no hidden fees, just transparent hiring.

Traditional Hiring

  • Intermediaries take a cut of the developer’s salary
  • Outsourcing models reduce autonomy and create confusion
  • Extra bureaucracy with unnecessary contracts and restrictions
  • Hidden costs and unclear pricing
  • Tiresome process with unnecessary steps

Alvorada's hiring

  • Developers are paid directly by the company, no salary cuts
  • We are not an outsourcing firm — contracts are always direct
  • No extra contracts, just simple and direct negotiation
  • Transparent pricing, no hidden fees
  • Human process: all the steps are driven by people

Meet the people behind the work

Our team brings together experience, passion, and a shared mission: helping companies build the best teams by connecting them with the right talent

  • Mike Audi

    Founder & Customer Success

  • Haley Zapolski

    Founder & Customer Success

  • Miro Benício

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

  • Ricardo Gonçalves

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

  • Gabriel Schuler

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

  • Hanna Camelo

    Technical Recruiter

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Largest and most industrialized country in Latin America. Strong startup culture with global experience. Time zone overlap with North America. Access the top 1% of talent at a fraction of the cost.