Summary
Stephan Schwab is a seasoned Managing Director and software development coach with over 15 years helping CTOs and engineering leaders restore predictable delivery in product organizations. He blends deep hands-on engineering—starting to code in the early 1980s—with practical DevOps, ATDD and coaching experience across banks, insurance, telecom and eCommerce. Stephan has led technical transformations from embedded C and Java backends to cloud-native Kubernetes deployments, while also mentoring teams in test-driven practices and product-focused delivery. He founded and ran multiple tech companies and built developer tools and open-source helpers (e.g., RAutomation and rmq) that reflect his long-running interest in automation and integration. Based in Andalusia, Spain, he combines remote-first, multicultural collaboration with a knack for reading organizational dynamics and translating them into measurable engineering improvements. Clients value his ability to pair pragmatic technical fixes with people-centered coaching to make change stick.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
TU Dortmund University
English, Spanish, German