# Writing & profile — Lucas Arana

> Notes on engineering teams, hiring, AI and operations connecting Latin America with US companies.

Canonical page: https://lucasarana.com/writing/
Last updated: 2026-09-19

Lucas Arana is a Software engineer and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Nexton, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He joined Nexton in 2019 and leads operations, talent strategy and revenue operations, connecting Latin American engineers with US companies. He writes about technical hiring, distributed engineering teams and AI in business operations.

## Selected writing

These titles and links are from Lucas's public writing page. The original posts are published on LinkedIn.

- [We graded every candidate's English twice for a year. Once by a human, once by AI. The humans won.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7505596526220652545/)
- [Entry-level tech hiring is down. Senior hiring is up. Same year, same AI.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7480676003468546048/)
- [The more of your code AI writes, the more it matters what timezone your engineers sit in.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7478081896875388928/)
- [It is on every vendor's homepage. It means nothing.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498786423743987712/)
- [Only about one in ten companies has scaled AI agents into production. It is almost never a technology problem.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7455667543521837056/)
- [The whole Nexton management team shows what they actually built with AI this week. Live, on screen, running.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7487869543881752577/)
- [Argentina has a habit of building world-class tech under pressure.](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7448108177033981952/)

## About Lucas

[Profile and background](https://lucasarana.com/index.md).

## Contact

- [Connect on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasarana/)
- [Email Lucas](mailto:lucas.arana@nexton.dev)
- [Contact form](https://lucasarana.com/writing/#contact)
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