Hornburg Consulting embeds senior Brazilian software engineers with US product teams: nearshore staff augmentation, Ruby on Rails consulting, and AI-powered business process automation — just 1–2 hours ahead of US Eastern, with your choice of a US or Brazilian contracting entity.
Scale your engineering team with senior dedicated software developers in Brazil who join your standups, your Slack, and your GitHub. Nearshore staff augmentation with real-time collaboration — not overnight ticket ping-pong.
Ruby on Rails consulting, architecture reviews, legacy-app rescue, and fractional CTO services. Senior technical leadership on demand, without the full-time executive price tag.
Business process automation consulting that turns manual back-office work into AI-powered workflows. Scoped to measurable ROI: hours saved and errors eliminated, not vanity dashboards.
Shopify, BigCommerce, marketplace and supplier API integrations, and dropshipping automation built for production scale — by an engineer who has shipped e-commerce automation for years.
Most nearshore vendors give your legal team a headache. We give them a choice.
Our Delaware-registered LLC — familiar paperwork, US jurisdiction, and straightforward vendor onboarding for teams that need a domestic counterparty.
Contract directly with our Brazilian company as a service export — a lean, well-established route used by US companies working with Brazilian consultancies every day. USD invoicing either way.
A working session about your roadmap, your stack, and where senior hands or process automation move the needle fastest.
Clear scope, clear rates, and your choice of US or Brazilian contracting entity. No procurement maze.
We work in your tools and your rituals — your repo, your CI, your standups — shipping from week one.
Monthly check-ins on outcomes. Scale the engagement up or down as your roadmap demands.
Hornburg Consulting is led by João Hornburg, a senior software engineer with over 15 years building and scaling web applications — including 6+ years embedded with a US e-commerce automation company, shipping production software alongside a US product team every working day.
Home base is Pomerode, Santa Catarina — famously the most German town in Brazil. And the name? The Hornburg is the fortress at Helm's Deep that never fell while defended. That is the standard we hold for your production systems.
You get a senior Brazilian engineer (or small team) embedded in your existing workflow — your repo, your project tracker, your meetings — billed monthly through the contracting entity of your choice. It behaves like a remote hire, without the hiring overhead.
Brazil is on UTC−3 with no daylight saving, which puts us 1–2 hours ahead of US Eastern and 2–3 ahead of Central. Your entire working day overlaps with ours.
Yes. Teams that need a US counterparty contract with our Delaware-registered LLC. Teams comfortable with an international vendor can contract directly with our Brazilian entity as a service export.
Typically 40–60% less than comparable US senior compensation — before you count recruiting fees, benefits, and the months a US senior search takes.
Heavily and deliberately. AI-assisted workflows compress delivery cycles, with a senior engineer reviewing and accountable for every line that ships.
Shopify, BigCommerce, marketplaces, and supplier/dropshipping APIs — including custom integration layers where off-the-shelf connectors fall short.
Tell us about your roadmap and we'll tell you, candidly, whether and how we can help. You'll get a reply from the engineer — not a sales rep — within one business day.