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title: About Us: Nearshore Software Company Since 2017
description: Tupaca was born in 2017 in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Get to know our story, our team, and the commitment to quality that brought us here.
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# About us: building software since 2017

Tupaca was born in 2017, in Palermo, Buenos Aires, when Nicolás Rodríguez and Rodrigo Melón, friends and Systems Engineering classmates at UTN, decided to join forces. The vision was clear: show the world the exceptional quality that digital products built in Argentina could achieve.

## Our story

What started as a small software development venture quickly gained traction when, that same year, we landed our first global client: FOX Channels. That challenge pushed us to grow as a team and move into a bigger office, without ever losing our startup DNA. In 2019, our quality management system earned ISO 9001 certification from TÜV Rheinland. In 2020, the pandemic brought unexpected challenges. We faced them with resilience, and kept growing with a team distributed across Argentina, earning the trust of new clients that let us gain experience in other industries.

Today we're 25+ people with 250+ projects delivered, working in highly specialized teams in constant contact with our co-founders. We make sure every client gets not just exceptional technology, but the founders' direct involvement in their project. Tupaca's story is, in a way, the story of every technical challenge we've taken on alongside our clients.

## We're tech geeks at heart

We love building challenging products that create real value.

- **Nicolás Rodríguez**: Co-founder & CTO
- **Rodrigo Melón**: Co-founder & CCO

## We're committed to every project

Quality, transparency, and commitment in every delivery, from the first sprint to the last.

- **AI**: We use AI tools to speed up the way we work, without ever compromising the quality of the solution we deliver.
- **Agility**: We run on agile frameworks like Scrum, so we adapt fast and deliver value every sprint.
- **Accuracy**: We analyze every project in depth to fully understand what you need, so our estimates are accurate and clear.
- **Commitment**: We stand behind the timelines we propose. That's why we review the scope thoroughly before committing to dates.
- **Transparency**: Clients can track project status at any time and review and sign off on progress from day one.
- **Quality**: We ensure the quality of every delivery by continuously improving our ISO 9001:2015-certified processes.

## Check out our success stories

- [The Walt Disney Company](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/disney): Since 2017, a Tupaca team has been building the advertising billing system for The Walt Disney Company's digital and streaming businesses in Latin America.
- [Bayer](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/bayer): From 2018 to 2022, we embedded a team of up to five senior backend developers in Bayer's engineering organization, working full-time on global-scale projects.
- [La Nación](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/la-nacion): We added a senior Python developer to La Nación's data team and built a dashboard that puts the news site's key metrics on the office videowalls in real time.
- [Sofitel La Reserva Cardales](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/sofitel): We designed and built Sofitel La Reserva Cardales's website and online store on WordPress and WooCommerce, so the hotel can sell promotional packages straight to guests: a fast, intuitive purchase flow on a platform its team runs entirely on its own.
- [Essen](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/essen): Since 2021, we've helped Essen build its technology team from the ground up — a team that, among other things, develops and maintains the web platform its resellers across Latin America use to place and manage orders.
- [Superdry Argentina](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/superdry-argentina): We built Superdry Argentina's Shopify store, connected to its back-office system, Mercado Pago payments and Zipnova shipping, for Anteojos Negros, the company that runs the brand locally.
- [Wolox](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/wolox): We joined Wolox's team to speed up PHP development on the loyalty app for Natura's resellers, working alongside its mobile, backend and design teams.
- [Delta Plus Argentina](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/delta-plus): We built an AI Opportunity Map for the finance and administration team at Delta Plus Argentina, part of a global maker of workplace safety equipment, with proposals ranked by impact and cost.
- [maximstore](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/maximstore): We built the custom e-commerce platform for maximstore, one of the region's leading Apple resellers, serving Argentina and Uruguay — and a PunchOut-enabled B2B portal that lets Techint's team buy through its own procurement system.
- [Hudson Kitchenware](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/hudson-kitchenware): We integrated an AI customer service agent into Hudson Kitchenware's Shopify stores in Mexico and Uruguay, so WhatsApp inquiries no longer depend on manual follow-up.
- [Grupo Mendizábal](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/grupo-mendizabal): We added a project manager to the technology team at Parallel, a Grupo Mendizábal company, to coordinate its projects with Tupaca's technical and management team behind them.
- [Gamer Factory](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/gamer-factory): We built a custom e-commerce platform for a gaming hardware retailer. The toughest piece: a PC builder that lets shoppers spec a rig part by part while checking compatibility at every step.
- [Datahaus](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/datahaus): We built Datahaus's online store in under a month and its corporate WordPress site, connected end to end and built for organic search. The store ranks on Google's first page without paid ads — and has already grown revenue by more than 30%.
- [Seguros Listos](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/seguros-listos): We custom-built Seguros Listos' website around an online quote engine that pulls coverage from multiple insurers through their APIs.
- [Grupo Palenque](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/grupo-palenque): We provided a dedicated team to evolve and stabilize the ERP-style system that runs Grupo Palenque's production plant — a Mexican mango grower and exporter — planning the work around its peak production dates.
- [Fertygen](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/fertygen): We built Fertygen's management system from scratch: software that runs the fertility clinic end to end and keeps each patient's full medical history in one place, developed faster with AI tools.
- [IDHS](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/idhs): We built IDHS's course and training platform from scratch for the education institute of the Municipal Physicians Association of Buenos Aires: course catalog, enrollment, payments and online teaching, all in one place.
- [Punto Clínico](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/punto-clinico): We ran product discovery for Punto Clínico, a practice management platform for specialty clinics in Mexico, to define how to rebuild it on a modern stack with AI.
- [Ephere](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/ephere): We built Ephere Football from scratch: a Web3 soccer manager where players, stadiums and currency were tokens, with AI-powered match simulation — later merged with MetaSoccer into a single game.
- [Eclipse Group](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/eclipse-group): We built Eclipse Group's airside operations platform and mobile app for wildlife hazard management, aligned with FAA standards. It was deployed at airports including Miami and Dallas and named one of the 10 most innovative ideas at eMerge Americas.
- [Haciendo Punta](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/haciendo-punta): We built from scratch the platform Haciendo Punta uses to run short-term rentals at Green Park in Punta del Este, and delivered its AI Opportunity Map: 8 ranked opportunities, with the first quick wins projected to return more than 10x their cost.
- [Wama](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/wama): We built a production management system for Wama, a Mexican sportswear uniform manufacturer, that tracks every order in real time. With AI across the whole process, we delivered it 10x faster than we could have without it.
- [Testorelli](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/testorelli): We took over the e-commerce site of Testorelli, an Argentine jeweler since 1887 and Official Rolex Retailer, when it took 20 seconds to load. Today it loads in about a second and meets 100% of Rolex's digital standards.
- [Mosso](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/mosso): We joined the team behind the e-commerce site of Mosso, an Official Rolex Retailer in Chile, to improve it, add new features and manage requests from the luxury brands it represents.
- [Quick Informática](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/quick-informatica): We worked on Quick Informática's Shopify store, building automated distributor integrations to sell hardware without in-house stock, and developed its WordPress corporate website.
- [FUL-MAR](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/ful-mar): We built the front end of FUL-MAR's new taxi-hailing app for Android and iOS with React Native and AI. FUL-MAR has been in vehicle technology since 1963.
- [Industrias FMR](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/industrias-fmr): We used AI to analyze how Industrias FMR, an Argentine metalworking company, manages its materials, and delivered a proof of concept that generates bills of materials straight from its drawings.
- [APESAU](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/apesau): We built an AI Opportunity Map for the time and attendance team at APESAU, Argentina's state advertising agency, with proposals ranked by impact and cost — all from a single one-hour discovery session.
- [High Electronics](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/high-electronics): We designed and built a corporate landing page and a Shopify store for High Electronics, Dell's direct partner in Argentina. The store went live in under a month.
- [Pertix Tech](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/pertix-tech): We built Pertix Tech's self-service platform for quality-standards compliance, which the company sells as SaaS.
- [LEATID](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/leatid): For more than 5 years, we've designed, built and evolved the web platform for LEATID, the Training and Development division of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Latin America, with a dedicated team and ongoing maintenance.
- [Jotafí](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/jotafi): We designed the technical roadmap to modernize SIGeMi, Jotafí's municipal management system: a complete proposal covering architecture, technology and a gradual migration, with AI as a development accelerator.
- [Growlat](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/growlat): We helped Growlat's tech team adopt Scrum through tailored consulting: a full diagnosis, clear roles, a custom implementation plan and hands-on support throughout the transition.
- [Ideograma](https://www.tupaca.com/en/success-stories/ideograma): We designed and built two WordPress websites the client manages on its own: one for Ideograma, a political communication consultancy, and one for its founder, Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí.

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