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

    Mike turns every opening into a clear brief before the search begins: what the role is really about, the seniority it calls for and what success looks like on the team. He also runs billing and handles critical client communications, so each client always has one accountable point of contact.

    • Role briefing
    • Billing
    • Client communications
  • Haley Zapolski

    Founder & Business Development

    Haley is usually the first person a company meets at Alvorada. She finds new clients and leads the first conversations, getting to know each startup, its team and its hiring plans so every partnership starts on the right footing.

    • Business development
    • New clients
    • First contact
  • Miro Benício

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

    Miro runs background interviews and language assessments alongside Gabriel and Hanna, making sure each candidate's experience, motivation and English are the right fit before the technical round. A senior engineer by trade, Miro also maintains the technical stack behind Alvorada.

    • Background interviews
    • Language assessment
    • Tech stack
  • Ricardo Gonçalves

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

    Ricardo leads Alvorada's technical interviews and is our lead technical evaluator. Drawing on years of hands-on software development, he assesses candidates the way a hiring lead would: real-world problem solving, technical depth and how engineers operate inside product teams.

    • Technical interviews
    • Technical assessment
    • Problem solving
  • Gabriel Schuler

    Co-Founder & Technical Recruiter

    Gabriel runs background interviews and language assessments alongside Miro and Hanna, getting to know each candidate's career path, motivation and goals. Every conversation also checks that engineers communicate clearly and confidently in English with US teams.

    • Background interviews
    • Language assessment
    • Career goals
  • Hanna Camelo

    Technical Recruiter

    Hanna manages the candidate experience end to end, from first conversation to offer. Her recruiting background in tech ensures every engineer presented is prepared, engaged and genuinely excited about the opportunity.

    • Candidate experience
    • Screening
    • Offer management

FAQ

Alvorada grew from our experiences building engineering teams around the world

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.