About Caimito Agile Life

Stephan Schwab

Stephan Schwab has been programming since 1981 and has worked on a variety of different platforms and with about 20 different programming languages. In his current role, he focuses primarily on what users and companies really want to do with software and how to develop software that excites customers. He grew up in Germany and has lived and worked in various countries. He speaks fluent German, English, and Spanish.

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Our Associates

Depending on the project, we bring in trusted associates with deep expertise in specific domains. These are seasoned practitioners we've worked with over the years, not subcontractors from a catalog. Each engagement gets the right combination of skills: infrastructure specialists, security experts, data practitioners, UX researchers, or additional developers. The team composition fits the problem, not the other way around.

Our Story Characters

We tell stories that show what we can't say in client meetings. Each series is a telenovela with a defined arc and clear lessons learned. And here's the best part: you can put those lessons into practice without even hiring us. Why we chose this format.

Stefan Richter is the recurring character: a Developer Advocate who embeds with teams, ships code, and tells leadership what's actually broken. Not the "Developer Relations" kind who hands out stickers at conferences. How the title got stolen and why we took it back.

Telenovelas: La Startup, Signal Through Noise, São Paulo, and Medellín. Follow on X: @stefan_devadv.

Luciana Ortiz reads rooms faster than anyone and never wastes a crisis. Follow her for how communication strategy shapes delivery outcomes.

Telenovela: La Startup. Follow on X: @ortiz_luci49356.

Katja Müller keeps the receipts and turns quiet signals into decisions nobody can dodge. Follow her for how leadership uses evidence instead of theater.

Telenovela: Signal Through Noise. Follow on X: @MullerKatj91277.

Julia Nascimiento sees patterns in numbers nobody else notices and carries loyalties that make every decision dangerous. Follow her for what happens when analytical brilliance collides with corruption.

Telenovela: São Paulo (in development). Follow on X: @julianascimient.

Salomé Ruiz looks underestimated until she stops playing safe and changes the temperature in the room. Follow her for growth, discipline, and technical courage.

Telenovela: Medellín (in development). Follow on X: @salome_dev.

Our AI Assistants

Every member of our team works alongside AI assistants daily. Not chatbots. Thinking partners embedded in our development environments, our analysis pipelines, our writing workflows. The gap between intent and working code collapsed. We describe what a system should do, the AI writes it, we review, refine, and integrate. The same approach applies to analyzing legacy codebases, exploring architectural options, and drafting documentation.

The bottleneck moved from typing code to making good decisions about code. That's where decades of experience become the differentiator, not a liability. AI handles volume and velocity. We handle the hard part: your business context, trade-off decisions, and systems that actually serve your users.

After all, we practice what we preach. Our own products, Caimito Navigator and Nilo Assistant, were built with AI collaboration and use AI at their core. Both exist because AI made it possible for a small team to build what used to require a department.