About us

Seven years building custom software. From Araras to the world.

Overdrive was born in 2019 with a simple premise: deliver software that works, on time, without fuss. Fully remote team, with clients in Brazil and abroad.

7

Years in operation

24

Projects delivered

6

Published apps

5

Industries served

Our story

From an informal start to today's operation.

Claudio Basckeira and Rafael Mercatelli founded Overdrive in March 2019. What started as a partnership between two friends who wanted to build their own operation grew into a team distributed across different states of Brazil.

We've delivered systems that support critical operations in five industries: fintech, paper and pulp, solar energy, electrical manufacturing, and higher education and research. The work spans full-stack SaaS platforms and complex internal systems through to mobile apps published on the Apple and Google stores.

We also publish our own apps. Nine are on the stores today, covering productivity, games, and specialized tools. These are products with their own users, their own design and monetization calls, and their own lessons learned. That practice keeps us close to the platforms, publishing processes, and user acquisition challenges that also show up in our client work.

Founders

Who's behind it.

Claudio Basckeira, Overdrive co-founder

Claudio Basckeira

Co-founder, Technical Director

BSc in Computer Science from Unicamp. 18 years building production software (mobile, web, AI integration). Co-founded Overdrive in 2019; leads technical architecture, internal products, and the integration of AI tooling into the team's day-to-day.

Rafael Mercatelli, Overdrive co-founder

Rafael Mercatelli

Co-founder, Executive Director

Degree in Information Systems; prior background in the banking sector. Co-founded Overdrive in 2019 and runs finance, commercial, legal, and operations. Local network in Araras for sourcing developers and partners.

Team

Distributed, dedicated.

We're a fully remote team distributed across different states of Brazil. Most work on client contracts; part of the team is dedicated to our internal products.

What holds the team together is simple: a taste for building software that works, and a collaborative posture day to day. We work with clients in Brazil and abroad.

Stack

The right tools for each project.

.NETJavaLaravelReactVue.jsFlutterGodotPostgreSQLMySQLAWSPythonTypeScriptAI integration

We don't lock into a single stack. We pick the technology that fits the client's problem.