Meshack Mitei
General Manager
Overall executive leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight of the entire organization.
About us
Engineers, designers and researchers shipping the next layer of software.
Upperfirms Technologies is a Nairobi-based studio of senior engineers who care about craft. We help ambitious teams design, build and operate modern systems — from idea to production.
Our story
Born in Nairobi. Built for the world.
Upperfirms Technologies started as a small group of senior engineers tired of bloated agencies and slow delivery. We wanted to ship — quickly, cleanly, and with the rigor of a product team. Today we're a focused studio of engineers, designers and AI researchers helping companies on three continents turn ambitious ideas into production-grade systems.
Every engagement is led by people who have built and scaled real products — not consultants reading from playbooks. We treat your codebase, your customers and your roadmap with the same care we'd give our own.
Craft-first
We sweat the details others skip.
Outcome-led
We measure success in your metrics.
AI-native
AI is woven into how we design and ship.
Velocity
Working software every single week.
Our mission
Make great engineering accessible — high quality, predictable delivery, no fluff.
Our vision
A world where every product team has senior engineering and AI as a default capability.
Who we work with
Series A–C startups, scale-ups and progressive enterprises shipping real software.
How we ship
Small, senior teams. Weekly demos. Outcomes over hours. Production over PowerPoint.
What we stand for
The principles behind every line of code
Senior by default
No juniors hidden behind senior PMs. Every engineer on your project has shipped at scale, owned production incidents, and knows when to say no.
Boring tech, ambitious problems
We pick mature tools so we can take risks where they matter — your product, your data model, your user experience.
Production from day one
Tests, CI/CD, observability and security are not phase two. They're how we work from the first commit.
Transparent by design
Public backlog. Weekly demos. Honest weekly write-ups. No status theater, no surprises in the invoice.
AI as a force multiplier
We build with and on top of modern AI — but only where it actually moves the needle for your customers.
Long-term partnership
Most of our clients renew. We design engagements so you keep velocity even after the engagement ends.
The team
The people behind UpperFirms.
A focused team bringing together leadership, engineering, product, operations and visual strategy to build dependable digital products.
Frankline Kober
Head of Business Operations
Overseeing day-to-day business processes, administrative efficiency, and cross-functional execution.
Amos Njega
Engineering and Technology
Managing technical development, software and infrastructure systems, and engineering teams.
Anthony Muhoro
Engineering and Technology
Managing technical development, software and infrastructure systems, and engineering teams.
Peter Njihia
Product Management
Defining product strategy, roadmap execution, and feature lifecycles.
Victor Muriithi
Design and Visual Strategist
Crafting visual branding, user experience and interface strategy, and creative execution in close collaboration with Product and Engineering.
100%
Senior engineers
3+
Continents served
24h
Avg. response time
0
Outsourced work
10+
Projects shipped
12
Industries
98%
Client retention
3 yrs
Avg. team experience