# Trio

> Trio is a Boston-based engineering services company that embeds senior developers, primarily from Latin America, in fintech teams. Its services include staff augmentation, dedicated development teams, software outsourcing, and engineering for payments, banking, risk, and financial integrations. Clients retain control of their roadmap while Trio handles sourcing, vetting, and ongoing staffing support.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Daniel Alcanja (Co-founder and CEO), Alex Kugell (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Fintech staff augmentation, Dedicated development teams, Fintech engineering, Software outsourcing, AI engineering talent
- **Notable:** Trio reports 70+ developers placed globally in 2021., Trio says it opened a second office in São Paulo in 2022., Trio reports 90% customer retention in its 2023 timeline.

## Products & services

- **Fintech staff augmentation** — Senior engineers join an existing client team; Trio sources, vets, and supports the talent while the client directs the roadmap.
- **Dedicated development teams** — Stable teams of senior fintech engineers work on a client product over time, with client control of priorities and Trio support for staffing and continuity.
- **Fintech engineering** — Engineering services for payments, banking, ledgers, lending, financial integrations, risk, fraud, and identity workflows.
- **Software outsourcing** — Nearshore software delivery using senior engineers, with client ownership of code and intellectual property.
- **AI engineering talent** — Engineers for machine learning, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, model deployment, and MLOps.

## Achievements

- Trio reports 70+ developers placed globally in 2021.
- Trio says it opened a second office in São Paulo in 2022.
- Trio reports 90% customer retention in its 2023 timeline.
- Current service pages report 95% developer retention and 40+ product teams scaled; the measurement period and methodology are not specified.
- An anonymized clearing-house case study describes onboarding 25-30 developers to deliver features linked to an acquisition, followed by an ongoing embedded core team.
- An anonymized marketplace-bank case study describes a Contentful-based experimentation platform and standardized backend logging.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Dedicated-team and AI-engineering service pages carry a September 18, 2026 date and describe stable fintech teams and production AI hiring. These are publication dates, not verified service launch dates.

## Links

- Website: https://trio.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/triodev/
- GitHub: https://github.com/usetrio
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trio.dev/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/triodevelopers/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@trio.dev

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Last updated: 2026-10-25