01 · Cost
$150K+
a year, in SF
You’re paying enterprise rates for a single hire.
A senior in San Francisco runs $150K+ a year. The same bar of engineer in Mexico, in your time zone, costs a fraction. We don’t lower the bar to make the math work.
An engineering atelier in Mexico
We invest in engineers.They invest in your team.
A small studio of senior Mexican engineers who use AI the way the best teams do, as a multiplier, not a shortcut. Onboarded into your team in 3–5 weeks.
Currently scoping new client engagements
Built by engineers who've shipped at
The case
Hiring engineers is broken.
Slow, expensive, and full of mismatches. We've been on both sides of it, and built 2Sunrise to fix the parts that actually hurt.
02 · Fit
50 résumés
before a real candidate
Recruiters optimize for placement, not performance.
Most firms send everything they get and let you sort it out. We pre-vet in code so the two to four engineers we present are people your team would have hired themselves.
03 · AI fluency
Half-speed
without modern tooling
AI fluency isn’t optional anymore.
An engineer who doesn’t use AI well in 2026 ships at half speed. Cursor, Claude Code, agentic workflows are part of every 2Sunrise engineer’s daily practice, not a side experiment.
The studio
An atelier, not a staffing firm.
Small, deliberate, senior. Six things we do differently, and why your team feels them.
Time to onboard
3–5
weeks
From kickoff call to your engineer in your team’s standups. We scope, source, vet, and onboard in the time other firms spend on the first interview round.
Tooling
Humans, paired with AI.
Cursor, Claude Code, LangChain, agentic tooling are part of how we work, not the marketing line. The judgement to know when to lean on it stays with the engineer.
Sourcing
Hand-picked,
never scraped.
Vetted in code by us. Not by a recruiter reading a checklist.
Mentorship
From people who've done it.
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Time zones
Same hours as your team in SF, NYC, Austin.
No graveyard standups. No async-only friction.
Craft
We invest in our engineers.
Mentorship, tooling, time, growth, so they bring the same investment to your team.
The founders
Three engineers, no salespeople.
We started 2Sunrise because we love this work, and we wanted a place where engineers like us could keep loving it. The bar is what we've already lived.
Alex Hernández
Founder, Engineering
Architected revenue-critical services at Zillow (Zillow Pro launch, Go), shipped TripAdvisor’s Hotel Shopping rewrite serving 500M+ users, and trained at MIT in Machine Learning. Trilingual. Believes the bar for nearshore should be set in code, not in slides.
Currently
Architecting client engagements
Prior
Zillow · TripAdvisor · Cisco · MIT
Pablo Gómez Tagle
Founder, AI Engineering
Ships production agentic AI to enterprise. Built customer-facing and internal LangChain/LangGraph agents at Cody for Librerías Gandhi, Laureate Education, and GEPP, with measurable revenue and learning lifts. Ex-BBVA Data Engineer.
Currently
Shipping agentic AI to enterprise
Prior
BBVA · Cody · Multiplica · Ibero
Lorenzo Orozco
Founder, Operations
An engineer running our operations. Currently leads software engineering at L’Oréal Mexico, where he ships internal tooling and owns CI/CD for fast-moving applications. Ex-Monico AI Engineer with deep enterprise RAG and MLOps experience. Owns the rails: contracts, compliance, and the infrastructure that makes a studio actually run.
Currently
Running studio operations
Prior
L’Oréal · Monico · Ibero
A note from one of our partners
“They sat in our code reviews from week one. By month two, the engineer they placed already felt part of the team.”
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Oscar Margalli
Founder, Gradooz
Receipts, not promises
The work behind the pitch.
Every other consultancy shows you logos. We show you what was shipped, by whom, and what it changed.
Featured
Librerías Gandhi
Shipped by
Pablo Gómez Tagle, cofounder
LangChainRAGGCP Cloud RunMongoDB Atlas Vector
+10%
~10% lift in average sales · feedback loop from one month to near-instant
Customer-facing virtual bookseller agent on a 100K+ title catalog, plus internal staff-training and a customer-satisfaction agent. Built end-to-end from the requirements sessions to the production deploy.
by Pablo, our cofounder
Laureate Education
Multi-agent system embedded throughout a corporate learning platform that guides and diagnoses learner knowledge in real time.
−12%
Students reach learning objectives ~12% faster
LangGraphLangSmithVector Search
by Pablo, our cofounder
GEPP
Pre-sales agent for field reps that tracks performance vs. targets and generates per-client suggested orders.
+20%
Top-performing reps lifted sales by up to 20%
AgenticFastAPICloud Run
by Alex, our cofounder
Zillow
Architected the Monetization Proxy, the integration bridge that enabled the Zillow Pro launch, and built CDC pipelines for revenue-critical services.
99.99%
99.99% uptime · sub-50ms P99 on 8%+ of company revenue
GoAirflowObservability
by Alex, our cofounder
TripAdvisor
Core contributor on the Java→TypeScript/React rewrite of the Hotel Shopping Experience, the company’s primary revenue surface.
500M+
500M+ users · A/B tests delivered $100K+ profit
ReactTypeScriptA/B Testing
by Pablo, our cofounder
BBVA
14+ data pipelines and Looker Studio dashboards across 5 business units; ETL migration from Oracle to modern stores.
−2 days
Manual reports cut from 1–2 days to automated runs
ETLPySparkLooker
by Lorenzo, our cofounder
Monico (Legal)
Architected an enterprise RAG platform for large-scale legal document analysis with hybrid retrieval (semantic + BM25 + FAISS) and AutoML relevance scoring on Azure ML.
+30%
+30% retrieval recall · throughput for 100K+ pages monthly
LangGraphAzure AIRAG
by Lorenzo, our cofounder
L’Oréal
AI-powered tariff automation that detects upcoming changes, maps affected SKUs, and updates Power BI pricing workflows.
Auto
Repetitive operational work eliminated
PythonReactCI/CD
Engagements shown were delivered by 2Sunrise founders in prior roles at the named companies. Listed for engineering credibility. These are not 2Sunrise client engagements.
The stack
Modern tools, sharpened by humans.
From Go services and React frontends to vector stores and agentic pipelines. Hover any tool to see how we use it.
Hover a tool to read how we actually use it.
The process
From first call to onboarded, in five steps.
No black box, no salesy hand-waving. Here's how an engagement actually moves.
- 01
Scope
45-min discovery call
A founder gets on a call with you. Stack, seniority, team rituals, what would make a hire feel like a quiet win at week six.
- 02
Source
Internal vetting in 5–8 days
We bring engineers from networks we’ve built across Mexico’s best teams. Hand-picked, never scraped, vetted in code by us.
- 03
Present
2–4 candidates · annotated
A short list, not a flood. Two to four engineers worth your time, each with notes on why we believe they fit your team specifically.
- 04
Onboard
Full ops handled
Contract, payroll, equipment, time zone, kickoff. All handled. Engineers in your standups within 3 to 5 weeks of the first call.
- 05
Stay close
Continuous, never one-off
Weekly mentorship inside 2Sunrise. Quarterly check-ins with your team. The placement is the start of the relationship, not the end.
Logbook
What's on the bench right now.
Updated weekly
Week of May 25
Secured a full-stack developer for a client engagement. Opening positions for more, looking for senior backend and ML candidates.
Week of May 11
Spoke with a client exploring multiple one-off web projects. Scoping the right shape of engagement for them.
Late April 2026
Officially launched 2Sunrise. First client conversations underway and the studio is live.
Hire engineers
Hire engineers
who actually love this work.
Talk to a founder, not a sales rep. We'll scope your role and come back with a shortlist within a week.