Jacqueline Samira / Founder & CEO, Howdy.com
I build engineering teams across the Americas. The best software talent on the continent works in your time zone, and I have spent the better part of a decade proving it.
I am the founder and CEO of Howdy.com, where US companies build embedded, full time engineering teams with the best technical talent in Latin America. I started the company in 2018 because I saw something the industry refused to see: the talent question was never about geography. It was about time zones, trust, and how you treat people.
We do it differently. Our engineers are full time teammates, not bodies on a bench. They work from Howdy Houses, real physical spaces we operate in cities across Latin America, because community and belonging are not perks. They are the product.
I identified a critical gap in the pipeline for recruiting, scaling, and retaining world-class engineering talent for US tech companies, and I solved it by creating Howdy.com. My approach goes beyond the outdated outsourcing, agency, and do-it-yourself hiring models that too often fail founders. The Howdy way emphasizes excellence, infrastructure, and an unwavering commitment to people. I am a graduate of Y Combinator's W21 batch, and my work has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, and Business Insider.
Today I live in Austin with my family, six kids and all, and on weekends you will find me at our ranch outside town with our fifteen longhorns and the chickens. I am proof that you can think in hemispheres and still be deeply from somewhere.
Howdy.com is the alternative to the traditional implementation firm. Instead of renting you a rotating cast of contractors, we embed full time engineers who join your standups, ship your roadmap, and stay. Our teams train in modern AI tooling, work in US time zones, and are supported by our own people and spaces on the ground across Latin America.
The model works because we solved the hard part first: retention. When engineers have a real community, a real career path, and a real employer who shows up for them, they do the best work of their lives. That is the whole secret, and it took eight years of operating to earn it.
Companies that treat Latin America as a cost play lose. Companies that treat it as a talent play win. The difference shows up in retention, velocity, and what your engineers build when nobody is watching.
Overlap is the real currency of remote work. An engineer who is awake when you are awake compounds in value every single day. The Americas share a workday, and that is a structural advantage most companies still ignore.
We built physical Howdy Houses because belonging is not a Slack channel. When remote workers have a place, a team, and a culture, the loneliness problem disappears and the performance problem goes with it.
I am open to speaking engagements, podcast appearances, press inquiries, and conversations with founders and operators building across borders. My team reads every message and will get back to you quickly.
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