We build software
that holds.

The pampa fed half the world because its soil runs deep. We engineer the same way — production-grade foundations your business can actually take root in.

Why Pampaware

The pitch
in five lines.

Everything below is evidence for these five claims. If any of them sound off for what you're building, we probably aren't the right shop.

01
Senior shop
15+ years per engineer. No juniors hidden behind senior bios.
02
Nearshore
Buenos Aires sits in EST and CST overlap. Real-time, not 12-hour async loops.
03
One team
Product, design, engineering. The same people who write the code shape the product.
04
Honest math
Comparable craft to a US senior team, materially lower burn. Floor ~$130/hour — senior compensation, fully loaded, no agency markup.
05
Builders
We ship our own products. We know what shipping looks like from the founder seat.
The cross-section

What's under the surface
is what holds it up.

Side by side: a prototype's thin crust over hollow ground vs. the deep, layered foundation a business takes root in.
Vibe-coded substrate depth: ~6"
  • no auth layer beneath the form
  • no transactions on the writes
  • no tests on the payment path
  • no backups, no replicas, no plan
  • no observability when it breaks
  • RESULT: the first storm collapses the surface.
Pampa-grade substrate depth: meters
  • SECURITY secure auth · safe sessions · CSRF · audit trail
  • DATA INTEGRITY transactions · idempotency · recoverable backups
  • SCALABILITY fault-tolerant · replicas · queues · caching
  • MAINTAINABILITY KISS · SOLID · DRY · cohesive · idiomatic
  • OBSERVABILITY traces · structured logs · SLOs · runbooks
  • DELIVERY preview envs · CI · zero-downtime deploys

Same plant on the surface. Completely different fate when the weather turns.

Beyond the code

Production-grade
is the floor. The product is the point.

Robust software is what we're known for. But the work doesn't end there — we sit with you in discovery, sweat the design, and stay close to your customers until the thing actually lands.

Four ways
we work.

How we work
I

Foundation assessment

1 week · the report is yours

A senior read of your codebase, your situation, and your launch risks. You walk away with a written assessment of what's solid, what's at risk, and the riskiest thing to shore up first — whether or not you hire us next.

II

Production hardening

scoped after the assessment

We take a working-but-fragile thing — usually built fast, often with AI tools — and make it shippable. Auth, data integrity, observability, deploys. The stuff that breaks in front of customers, fixed before it does.

III

Discovery + build

scoped per project

For founders pre-prototype, or with a prototype pointed the wrong way. Interviews, the bet on a page, prototypes, design — and only when the bet is sharp, code. Sometimes we never write any.

IV

Senior on call

monthly retainer

Async code review, weekly sync, the senior judgment your AI tools can't give you. Keep building yourself. We catch what would have broken.

Track record

Builders,
not just builders-for-hire.

We don't just talk about shipping. We've carried products from prototype to acquisition — Restorando, Getro — and we know what production looks like when there's nobody to escalate to.

Nicolás Daniel Risso

Who you'll work with

Nicolás Daniel Risso
Founder, Pampaware · Buenos Aires

15+ years building software for startups. Two acquisitions — Restorando (acquired by TheFork) and Getro (now a Findem company) — and products shipped from scratch across restaurant reservations, VC talent platforms, and brand-protection marketplaces.

He's joined by a small bench of collaborators from across that career — engineers, designers, and product people who care about the craft. We stay deliberately small. You always know who's writing the code.

Ground that holds.
Send us the repo.

A short, free diagnostic: where the foundation is thin, what we'd shore up first, and an honest estimate of the work to get your business onto soil that holds.

Have a repo? Send the link. Just an idea? Tell us in a paragraph. We respond to both.

Engagements start at ~$130/hour · hello@pampaware.com