Team Darphiz designs custom software, AI agents and automation for companies that have outgrown spreadsheets and manual follow-up. Since 2022 we have shipped more than 50 projects for fintech, commerce, health and education.
Based in Lagos. Building for clients across Nigeria, Africa, the UK and the US.
50+
Projects shipped since 2022
6
Practice areas, from mobile apps to AI automation
4 + 11
Core team plus long-term specialists
In 2022, Daramola Afeez started taking contract work on Upwork. No office, no investors, no company to point to. One engineer, one profile, and clients who had never met him and had no reason to be patient.
The first projects came from people he already knew and trusted, and they joined him. That pressure shaped how we still work: the person who scopes your project signs off the build. Nothing is handed to strangers, and nothing is promised that the builders have not agreed to.
More than 50 projects later, across Upwork, referrals and direct briefs, clients stay because we say no early, ship in small testable steps, and answer for the result after launch.
Four of us lead every project. Eleven long-term specialists join when the work needs them. You will always know who owns your scope, your timeline and your launch.
Founder, Backend Engineer and Cloud Architect
Afeez has spent six years building backend systems and the cloud infrastructure behind them, working in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. He leads architecture reviews on every project, so the scope you agree is the system you receive.
Product Designer
Joseph designs what we ship, from the first wireframe to the screen a customer actually uses. His work covers fintech, marketplaces and health platforms. He builds design systems so the interface stops being an argument in month three.
Full-Stack and Mobile Developer
Olamide builds both sides of a product: the Next.js and React front ends, the Node and PostgreSQL services behind them, and the React Native apps people carry in their pockets. He trained as a mechanical engineer, so he still reads software as a system with load and failure points.
Operations and Finance
Funmilola keeps the numbers honest. She handles the accounts, the invoicing and the project records that tell us what we actually earned. She is part-way through her qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and has training in data analysis.
Most briefs fall into one of these six areas. If yours does not, tell us anyway. We would rather say no early than take work we cannot do well.
Internal tools built around how your team already works, so orders, records and reports stop living in five spreadsheets.
Learn moreWebsites and platforms that load fast, rank well, and stay up when real traffic arrives on sale day.
Learn moreAndroid and iPhone apps your customers can use on a Monday morning, on low data and low battery.
Learn moreThe task your staff repeat every week, connected once and then finished for good.
Learn moreAssistants that answer customers, follow up on leads and keep records current without copying and pasting.
Learn moreHosting, pipelines and monitoring set up so the site keeps serving when one part breaks.
Learn moreWe write for owners deciding what to build next. Each guide answers one buying question: what to automate first, what an agent can actually do, or when a virtual assistant beats software.
You can read the thinking we bring to a scoping call before you book one.
Send a short brief about the process that keeps breaking: orders, follow-up, records, payments. We reply with what we would build first, what it would take, and whether we are the right team for it.
“Working with Darphiz was one of the best decisions we made. They understood our fintech needs right from the start and delivered a fast, secure, and user-friendly platform.”
Want to build with us instead? Send your work to [email protected]. A link to something you shipped tells us more than a curriculum vitae.