Damian Wasserman is the co-founder of BEON.tech, which he started in 2018 with Michel Cohen, and he leads the company’s sales team. Since then he has spent his days connecting leading US companies with top-tier engineers from Latin America. He has always been drawn to two things at once: the technical work of making things run and the business side of building something new, and technology has been the bridge that lets him create more than he could build with his own two hands. After several years away from hands-on coding, AI brought him back over the past two years, and he says he is now several times more productive than before. Today he builds something new almost every day, from integrations and automations to AI skills he shares with the BEON.tech team so the company can lead the way in how engineering teams work with AI. A member of the Forbes Technology Council, Damian writes about nearshore software development, staff augmentation, hiring engineers in Latin America, and how AI is changing the way engineering teams are built.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Buenos Aires. Specialized in Programming, Project Management, and R&D in web technologies.
It’s 5:00 PM. You’ve been “on” all day—standups, incident chatter, stakeholder pings, a surprise roadmap question, and a calendar invite you didn’t accept but couldn’t ignore. You close your laptop exhausted… and slightly uneasy, because the one thing you needed most—an uninterrupted block of deep work—never happened. For tech leaders, that feeling isn’t just a…
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Across industries, executives share a growing frustration: job openings attract hundreds—or even thousands—of applicants, yet critical roles remain unfilled for months. On paper, talent supply appears abundant. In practice, teams struggle to find professionals who can step in and deliver value quickly. This contradiction sits at the heart of today’s IT talent gap. Organizations are…
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