Business Automation Engineer
Hire an engineer to automate your operations
Not a Zapier consultant. An engineer who replaces the spreadsheet, the WhatsApp group and the clipboard with software the team stops having to think about — written in code you own, on infrastructure you control, with no per-execution billing.
The part most people get wrong
The spreadsheet works until the company doubles. Then it starts losing invoices, dropping stock counts and hiding the balance sheet — silently, which is the dangerous part. Every manual step is a place the operation can fail without anyone noticing until month-end.
What you get
- →ERP layer built over the POS you already run — Distrialma has a live SQL Server sync feeding a Next.js back-office with tesorería, cheques lifecycle and a live Cuadro de Cuentas Mayores.
- →AFIP electronic invoicing (RG 5616) issued directly from your system with your own certificate — no per-invoice SaaS fee.
- →Google Sheets ↔ database sync so the team keeps the spreadsheet they know while the database stays the source of truth.
- →Unified inbox across WhatsApp, MercadoLibre, TiendaNube, Facebook and Instagram with 5-role RBAC.
- →Bulk stock and price Excel operations — a 3,000-SKU update that took 3 hours now runs in 30 seconds.
- →Automated cierre de caja with discrepancy alerts to the owner's morning email.
- →Scheduled offsite backups via rclone plus daily sanity-check emails.
- →No Zapier, Make, n8n or Power Automate — written directly in Node/Python/TypeScript with real logging and error handling, on your own server.
Proof — shipped and in production
Servifibras CRM + AI
A composites shop was renting an AI assistant. Their own Claude-powered agent now handles sales across 5 channels, with hard guards against price hallucination.
Famacon Livestock Monitor (M2)
Cattle fields were checked on foot at dawn. Sensor telemetry over MQTT/HTTP fires WhatsApp alerts when a threshold breaks, before anyone leaves the house.
Distrialma Wholesale ERP
A wholesaler was running its POS blind to accounting. An ERP layered over the SQL Server POS shows a live balance sheet and files AFIP invoices.
Automotive Portals Integration
Selling cars on 6 Brazilian portals meant 6 manual re-postings a day. Laravel API integrations sync each platform automatically and stay reliable.
Frequently asked
Why not Zapier or Make? They are cheaper to start.+
They are, until volume arrives. Every step becomes a per-execution charge that scales with your growth, and every debugging session is a black box. Written directly in code on your own server, the same workflow costs a fixed hosting fee regardless of volume and you can read the logs when something goes wrong.
Do we have to abandon our current spreadsheets?+
No. A Google Sheets sync layer keeps the spreadsheet as an editable front-end where that actually fits — bulk price updates, for example — while the database holds the truth. Nobody is forced off a tool that works.
Can you integrate with our accounting system?+
Yes. Contabilium, Xubio, Bejerman, Tango and most others expose a REST API, a database export or a CSV drop. Integration is typically 3-5 days.
This role is also called
- business automation professional
- process automation consultant
- internal tools engineer
- RPA alternative
- operations engineer
- back-office developer
Start with a written brief
Describe what the business is losing today and what the target outcome looks like. I come back with a concrete plan against that document — in English, Spanish, Portuguese or Polish.
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