How Ziff Davis Staffed 4 Technical Disciplines in Mexico

The company

Ziff Davis is a New York-headquartered digital media and internet company, operating a portfolio of technology, health, gaming and cybersecurity brands alongside marketing-technology products.

The problem this engagement solves

Staffing one repeated role is a sourcing problem. Staffing four unrelated technical disciplines (support, networking, DevOps and full-stack development) from one pipeline, to one standard, on one contract, is a different problem.

It is the problem that decides whether a nearshore partner can carry an operations estate or only a product squad. A vendor built around senior application engineers will fill the full-stack seat well and treat the other three as a lower tier of the same thing. They are not a lower tier; they are different competencies, and each has to be scoped and vetted as one.

What CodersLink did

Ziff Davis engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: Mexican professionals vetted to the Top 1% Standard, working inside Ziff Davis's own operations on a per-professional contract.

Six roles have been filled over the life of the engagement, across four disciplines: technical support, network engineering, DevOps and full-stack development. Each discipline was scoped with its own criteria rather than against one generic technical profile, and every role went through the same five-layer vetting against the same 75-point gate.

Results

Roles supported

Tech Support · Network Engineer · DevOps Engineer · Full Stack Engineer

In the client's words

"CodersLink is very efficiently-priced and offers a good service for that price."

[ATTRIBUTION UNRESOLVED. See pre-publish gates. Register says "Robert Taylor, General Counsel, Ziff Media"; public record says Deputy General Counsel, Ziff Davis. Do not publish either version until confirmed.]

Can one nearshore partner cover several technical disciplines at once?

Yes. Ziff Davis has staffed technical support, network engineering, DevOps and full-stack development in Mexico with CodersLink: six roles across four disciplines, on a single engagement.

The reason that matters is that operations estates are rarely one shape. If a partner can only fill the discipline it recruits for, the other three go somewhere else, and the client ends up managing three vendors to staff one function.

How every CodersLink Staff Augmentation engagement works

The same terms apply to this engagement and to every other.

• Who holds the contract. CodersLink holds the engineer's contract in Mexico, and the classification decision is ours to make and ours to carry.
• Who directs the work. The client. The client sets priorities and accepts the work; the engineer works to the client's roadmap and delivery standards.
• Who owns the output. Everything the engineer creates for the client's project is assigned to the client by present assignment, worldwide and perpetual, signed inside the engineer's service agreement before day one. Every engineer signs an NDA before starting.
• Vetting. Five layers against a 75-point gate (communication, soft skills, a live technical screen, background verification and references), applied the same way every time. Verification and references are completed and archived before contract signing, and the findings are shared with the client.
• Hours. 7–8 hours of daily overlap with US business hours.
• Replacements. Unlimited, free, for the life of the engagement: no cap, no tenure window, no fee. Sourcing restarts within one business day of your request, and three vetted profiles reach you within five business days for a standard role. We would rather tell you how it runs than let "unlimited" imply "instant."
• Pricing. A fixed monthly rate per engineer. We show you what sits inside that rate before you sign, and we never take a cut of the engineer's pay.

Need capacity across several technical disciplines rather than one? Book a call. We will scope each discipline separately and tell you which are standard and which are scarce.