About
One accountable engineering company.
Fikazon Technologies has built production software in Lagos since 2009. We understand the problem, build the whole system, and keep it running where power and internet fail.
What we are
- A build partner that takes a product from scope to launch at a fixed scope and timeline.
- Deep in offline-first systems, financial correctness, multi-tenant platforms, real-time apps and data APIs.
- At home with African infrastructure: Paystack, unreliable power and bandwidth, offline operation.
- Still running what we ship. We do not hand over code and leave.
Three verbs
- Build
- Fourteen products and client systems across seven sectors, on the web, Windows, Android and servers inside the customer's building.
- Ship
- Live public sites, signed self-updating desktop apps, installers, hundreds of numbered releases, push-to-deploy pipelines.
- Own
- We run the servers, the backups, the migrations, the support guides and the long-term evolution.
Founder
Adeyanju Falade
Founder and lead engineer
“Understand the problem deeply, then build systems that continue delivering value for years.”
I design enterprise software that solves complex operational problems.
For more than 17 years I have been engineering systems that help organisations operate more efficiently — first through industrial and environmental engineering, and later through enterprise software architecture.
Before software, I progressed from Laboratory Technician to Environmental Manager, leading multidisciplinary engineering work and writing the operational systems and technical documentation that go with it. That experience shaped how I build today: systems thinking, reliability, operational discipline and long-term maintainability.
The path
From the laboratory to the server room.
- A first career in industrial and environmental engineering, ending in the management of multidisciplinary engineering work.
- Systems thinking, reliability and documentation — the things an environmental manager is audited on — became the way the software is built.
- A modular school management platform with more than 100 modules, designed by the founder and still evolving. The company's longest-running product.
- A product company around that platform, and then a family of products for schools, healthcare, shops and consumers.
- The company's training arm. The founder teaches monthly cohorts of individuals to specify, build, launch and defend an application of their own.
- An exam platform with desktop, phone and in-school server software. A hospital system in pilot. Fee collection on live payment keys. A school website platform. A retail point of sale. A reverse marketplace. A school system moved onto current servers without its schools noticing.
How the founder works
- The specification is written first and treated as binding.
- Product and business questions come before technical ones.
- Software must work on bad computers and bad connections, because that is what customers have.
- A new system is never allowed to put a live one at risk. Changes to live data are add-only, tagged and proven reversible on a copy first.
- Products stay independent, so one failing cannot take another down.
- No claim goes out that cannot be backed. A hospital system in pilot is called in pilot.
Core expertise
Enterprise software architectureSecure platform engineeringREST API design and integrationRelational database designAuthentication, authorisation and RBACCloud infrastructure and disaster recoveryApplication securityTechnical documentationSystems integrationBusiness process automation
Tell us the problem.
We will tell you what it takes to ship it, and what it takes to keep it running.