DataGnu / Software Engineering

Custom Software Development

Software built around your requirements rather than the one-size-fits-all of commercial off-the-shelf.

What we build

What we build

Core platforms

The system a business runs on. Multi-tenant, integrated, built to survive a decade of change.

SaaS products

Tenancy, billing, onboarding, entitlements and the operational tooling a support team needs on day one.

High-throughput ingestion

IoT pipelines at thousands of messages per second, with device management, stream processing and monitoring.

Integration layers

APIs, event buses and the unglamorous connective work between systems that were never designed to speak to each other. Versioned, documented, tested.

AI in production

Retrieval, agents, extraction and decisioning in real workflows, with evaluation, guardrails and cost controls.

Internal tooling

The admin consoles, back-office workflows and reporting that decide whether a platform is genuinely operable or quietly held together by spreadsheets.

Delivery

How we deliver a product

01

Business Planning

What the product is for, who it serves, and what has to be true commercially for it to work.

02

Product Strategy and Roadmap Development

A clear technical and business roadmap, sequenced so value lands early. We leverage industry frameworks to launch and scale.

03

Minimum Viable Service

The smallest genuinely operable service, built to production standards, that proves the assumptions.

04

Go-to-Market, Launch and Iterate

We launch, measure and keep going. The roadmap stays live after go-live.

How we work

Infrastructure as codeCI/CD from day oneAutomated testingObservability built inEvent-driven where it earns itDocumented handoverSecurity reviewedPOPIA-aware by design

Technologies we integrate

What we build with.

We pick tooling for the problem at hand, proprietary or open-source. Cloud platforms are under Cloud.

Languages & frameworks

PythonJavaScriptReactTypeScriptNode.js

Data & storage

PostgreSQLAmazon DynamoDB

AI & models

AnthropicOpenAIGoogle GeminiQWenOllamaNVIDIAAmazon Bedrock AgentCore

Identity, credit & bureau

truIDTransUnionXDS

Payments & finance

PaystackPayFastXero

Observability & analytics

GrafanaSentryPostHogGoogle Analytics

Platform & distribution

VercelUbuntuGoogle PlayMicrosoft 365

Engagement models

Engagement models

ModelBest forWhat you get
Product buildA new platform or product going from nothing to liveA dedicated team, a scoped delivery plan, and a running system you own outright at the end.
Embedded teamAn existing roadmap that needs more engineering capacityOur engineers working inside your process and tooling, accountable to your delivery leads.
Build & runTeams who want the software without owning the operationsWe build it, then run it under a managed service with agreed response targets and a live roadmap.
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