Tim ZylaMIAMI — Dotdash Meredith and NGN Advisory will deliver a collaborative presentation outlining their nearshore engineering strategy designed to deploy AI infrastructure quicker and with improved quality of experience at this year’s Nexus conference, taking place Oct. 8 and 9 in Miami.
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The session, “Enabling Quality of Experience for AI Infrastructure Through Nearshore Delivery,” will be delivered by Rajat Sharma, founder and CEO of NGN Advisory, and Sreejith Chelanchery, Dotdash Meredith senior vice president of delivery and infrastructure engineering. Covering two years of partnership, the session will detail how Dotdash Meredith is leveraging nearshore teams in Latin America to meet rising demand for scalable, agile and AI-enabled infrastructure development.
“How you nearshore talent specifically in South America as an augmentation vehicle helps us as an organization to meet our business needs and how are we actually doing that in practical sense … That is what I’m seeing as our opportunity to share with the audience,” Chelanchery said.
The slide deck will be structured around four pillars:
Distributed, Specialized Talent Throughout Latin America
Dotdash Meredith’s engineering footprint runs from Mexico, Colombia and Chile, each geography selected based on particular skills. This regional strategy allows for specialization while leaving delivery open. It is a result of direct response to the rising sophistication and availability of tech talent across Latin America. According to a 2024 Zinnov report, Latin America has over 1 million software developers with Mexico and Colombia being major AI and cloud engineering hubs.
Agile, Performance-Oriented Delivery
With coordinated time zones, Dotdash Meredith’s Latin American teams collaborate with U.S.-based team members in real time so iteration and synchronized agile sprints occur at a faster rate.
“We are creating a performance-oriented, design-thought-based model where the teams can work in the same time zone using agile methodology for delivering services,” Sharma said.
On-Site Collaboration and Innovation Synergy
Contrary to the conventional offshore models, the nearshore arrangement provides the opportunity for face-to-face innovation. “Nearshore experts are available for in-person design thinking sessions,” Sharma explained. “We actually fly them in to collaborate more closely with the broader team and explore more creative ways of doing things.”
This combination of onsite and virtual collaboration is consistent with industry reports indicating hybrid collaboration enhances the efficacy of innovation and accelerates decision-making.
Automation and Speed via Infrastructure as Code
A major component of the talk will address how infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code and continuous delivery pipelines, is shortening development cycles. “We’re delivering the speed of our continuous delivery by reducing the cycle time for creating environments through infrastructure as code,” Chelanchery noted.
Looking Ahead
Demand for nearshore delivery models has been growing in the enterprise and tech industries and their presentation comes as U.S. businesses are increasingly investing in Latin America for software development because of cost savings, cultural affinity and strong talent pipelines.
Held for the first time in Miami, Nexus 2025 is expected to draw top executives, technology leaders and sourcing strategists from across the Americas. The conference has repositioned itself around emerging trends such as AI transformation, geopolitics in talent sourcing and advanced customer experience delivery. Miami’s strategic location — at the commercial crossroads of the Americas — makes it a fitting backdrop for a conference deeply invested in Latin American and Caribbean innovation.
Dotdash Meredith, one of the leading U.S. digital and print publishers, owns well-known brands like People, Allrecipes, Investopedia and The Spruce. As demand for high-availability infrastructure and real-time data services continues to grow, the company is seeking to nearshore expertise to meet enterprise-grade needs while remaining cost-efficient and agile.
For NGN Advisory, a global digital services advisory company, the session is also a strategic attempt to raise awareness and generate future alliances. “My objective is more to get the word out — directly from Sreejith — so that more people can hear it,” Sharma said.
Sharma added that the session will focus on practical execution rather than broad theory. A compact slide deck of four to five slides will support the talk, built around operational use cases and business outcomes.
“We want to demonstrate how we’re building value — how this partnership is enabling scalable, resilient AI infrastructure with real agility,” Chelanchery said.
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