Calango LabTwelve years
Not a freelancer testing the market. Someone who has delivered, maintained, and watched software age — and builds with that in mind.
About
Twelve years building for the web.
Calango Lab started in 2013 as a single developer. Long enough to have watched a site launch, deliver, age badly and need rescuing — and to learn that building well isn’t enough if nobody answers for what happens after launch day.
Today there are three of us, and the team grew from exactly that point: alongside development came DevOps and infrastructure. It’s the difference between handing over a system and having someone answer for it at three in the morning — two things the market usually sells separately, then bills you for the gap between them.
The name comes from the lizard of the Brazilian backlands, which handles rough ground and is always where it needs to be.
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working portrait
workbench, not studio
working portrait
workbench, not studio
0Years in business
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What sets us apart
Four commitments
Anyone who has been burned hiring a web company knows exactly what they fear. These are the four fears — and what we do about each one.
The site and the system together
A store with integrations, a portal with a login area, a dashboard the team actually uses. Agencies stall at the integration; software houses ship ugly screens.
Building and sustaining
Development, DevOps and infrastructure under one roof. Whoever wrote the system is who answers when it has to stay standing.
Continuity
Documentation, readable code and a maintenance contract — the client is neither locked in nor abandoned.
Tooling
What we build with
WordPressNuxtNext.jsPHPJavaScriptAstroMySQLTailwind
The right stack is the one that’s still maintainable after handover — the criterion of people who also operate what they build. If your case calls for something else, we say so; and we say so too when we aren’t the best option.
The team
Small by choice, elastic by necessity
There are three of us, one per craft: development, DevOps and infrastructure. It’s the minimum to cover from requirement to server without outsourcing precisely the half that gets hard after handover.
On larger projects the team brings in specialist partners as the scope demands — that exists so you don’t pay for structure you aren’t using, and so a big project doesn’t stall for lack of hands. What we do not outsource is the sustaining: whoever built it keeps answering for it.
Let us talk about your problem
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.