Do you work with companies outside Brazil?
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Yes. I live in Curitiba, Brazil, and the work is remote, so distance doesn’t change how it happens.
The proof is in what I already do
The executive mobility platform I work on today serves São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Miami, in two languages, with rides, drivers, fleet and billing orchestrated by the same back end. One of those cities is not even in Brazil.
Before that I spent six months on a team in California, handling internal tools and integrations with people in other time zones. Working far from the client is not the exception in what I do: it is how most of my work has always happened.
How the work goes
Conversations happen in online meetings, with day-to-day follow-up by email or messaging, at whatever pace suits you. Every delivery is available in a staging environment with its own address, so you can actually use the system before it goes live — not look at screenshots, use it.
Scope, timeline and what belongs to each stage are written into the proposal. That is true for any client, but it matters more when you cannot clear up a misunderstanding over a coffee.
After the system is live
Support and maintenance are remote too, which is no different from any software you already use: the system runs on a server, access is through the browser, and a fix is published without anyone needing to visit your office. Response time does not depend on distance, it depends on my availability — which is agreed up front, not discovered when something breaks.
What if I need someone local later
It happens, and the project has to be ready for it from the start. The code and the data belong to your company, and the system runs on Docker, so another developer can bring the environment up and carry on without depending on me. Hiring remotely must not mean being locked to one person — and that is a risk worth asking any supplier about, not just me.
Language and time zones
I work in English and Portuguese. Brazil’s business hours overlap with the Americas and with a good part of the day in Europe, which makes meetings easy to schedule. Miami is one hour ahead of São Paulo for most of the year, and that has never been the hard part of the project.