David Hemmat

Founder & CEO Blue Coding

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

David Hemmat is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Coding, a nearshore staff augmentation firm he started in April 2014 that recruits, vets, and places Latin American software engineers with North American companies. The model trades on time zones as much as cost: a developer in Bogotá or Santo Domingo overlaps with a US working day in a way that an offshore team in Asia cannot, which makes the collaboration continuous rather than asynchronous. Hemmat built the business from himself working part-time alongside a single part-time developer into a company of 51 to 100 people that reached #116 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Venezuelan-born and Iranian-American, he lives in the Dominican Republic, where he also teaches entrepreneurship and runs a charitable foundation.

Career Highlights

• Founded Blue Coding in April 2014 and grew it from two part-time people to a team of 25 within five years, with roughly tenfold revenue growth across the following five.
• Blue Coding ranked #116 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2026.
• Professor of Innovation for Entrepreneurship at Barna Management School in the Dominican Republic.
• Founder of the Radiant Hearts Foundation, supporting small non-profits in education, poverty reduction, healthcare, and animal welfare.
• Co-founder of DR Moto Rides, an adventure motorcycle rental and tour company in the Dominican Republic.
• Former partner at Resolve Digital, and a practicing software engineer across Ruby on Rails, Spree, Solidus, Magento, and React.

Professional Journey

Hemmat was born in Venezuela and is Iranian-American, moving to the Dominican Republic at seventeen and building his career from there. He came up as a working software engineer rather than as a manager, with hands-on project experience across Ruby on Rails and the Spree and Solidus e-commerce frameworks, Magento, and React, and he was a partner at Resolve Digital before starting his own firm.

He founded Blue Coding in April 2014, beginning at the smallest possible scale: himself working part-time and one part-time developer. The premise was that North American companies struggling to hire engineers had a supply of strong candidates available a few hours south, and that the real obstacle was not talent but the difficulty of finding, vetting, and managing it across borders. Blue Coding positioned itself as that intermediary, handling recruitment and screening so clients could add engineers in Central and South America without building a hiring operation in each country.

The business compounded slowly and then quickly. Five years in, the team had reached 25 people; over the following five years revenue grew roughly tenfold, and the company reached 51 to 100 employees and #116 on the Inc. 5000 ranking of fastest-growing private companies. Hemmat has written about the ten-year arc himself, and his account emphasizes the unglamorous early period rather than the growth that followed.

He has built a life around the Dominican Republic rather than treating it as a base of convenience. He holds a teaching appointment as Professor of Innovation for Entrepreneurship at Barna Management School, founded the Radiant Hearts Foundation to help small non-profits develop their work in education, poverty reduction, healthcare, and animal welfare, and co-founded DR Moto Rides, an adventure motorcycle rental and touring company — an outgrowth of his own long-distance riding through Central and South America.

Education

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