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SmartRio Limited · Lagos & London

Engineering
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SmartRio is a full-stack digital engineering firm. We design, build and operate the software, cloud platforms and data systems that modern enterprises actually run on — with one accountable team from architecture to uptime.

Talk to us info@smartriolimited.org

6Disciplines, one team
2 wksDiscovery to first build
24/7Platform coverage

Capabilities

Six disciplines that ship as one delivery team.

Most programmes fail in the seams — between design and build, build and operations, data and decision. SmartRio holds all six under a single engagement lead, so the seams are ours to manage, not yours.

Product Engineering

Web, mobile and API products taken from a blank discovery board to a production release your users trust.

  • React / Next.js
  • React Native
  • API design
  • QA automation

Cloud & Platform

Landing zones, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and the CI/CD paths that make releases boring.

  • AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • FinOps

Data & AI

Pipelines, warehouses and model systems that put an answer in a workflow — not another dashboard nobody opens.

  • Lakehouse
  • Streaming
  • ML Ops
  • LLM systems

Experience Design

Research, interface design and design systems built to WCAG 2.2 AA — handed over as code, not just screens.

  • Discovery research
  • Design systems
  • Accessibility
  • Prototyping

Enterprise Modernization

Legacy systems moved in phased, reversible steps — integration layers first, cutover only when the numbers agree.

  • Strangler-fig migration
  • Integration layer
  • Core banking
  • ERP interfaces

Managed Engineering Pods

A cross-functional squad embedded in your roadmap, with your rituals, your board and a named engineering lead.

  • Dedicated squad
  • Named lead
  • Your sprint cadence
  • Monthly rolling

How we work

A sequence, not a proposal deck.

Every engagement runs the same four stages in the same order. You see working software in the first fortnight, and you can stop at the end of any stage with everything we have built in your hands.

01

Discover

Workshops, system tracing and a written architecture opinion. You get a costed delivery plan whether or not you continue with us.

Weeks 1–2

02

Architect

Target architecture, data contracts, security model, environments and the release path — reviewed with your team, not presented to it.

Weeks 3–5

03

Build

Two-week increments into a live environment. Demo every fortnight, trunk-based, tested, and shipped behind flags.

Continuous

04

Operate

SLOs, on-call, observability and cost review — until your own team is ready to take the pager, with the runbooks to do it.

Ongoing

Engineering stack

Boring technology, chosen on purpose.

We pick tools your team can hire for and your auditors have heard of. Novelty goes in the parts of the system where it earns its risk — and nowhere else.

Typed front ends with server rendering by default, a shared design system across web and mobile, and component tests that run on every commit.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsReact NativeFlutterTailwind CSSStorybookPlaywright

Engagement blueprints

How a SmartRio programme is scoped.

Three illustrative programmes showing the shape of our work: the problem as a client states it, the approach we would take, and the outcomes the engagement is engineered to hit.

Financial services

Payments switch modernization

The problem
A monolithic switch handles settlement, reconciliation and reporting in one deployable. Every release needs a weekend window.
Approach
Carve reconciliation and reporting out behind an event log first, keep the switch authoritative, then cut over path by path.
Engineered for
Zero-downtime releases, sub-second settlement visibility, and a PCI scope small enough to audit in days.

Illustrative blueprint — not a client engagement.

Logistics

Field operations platform

The problem
Drivers, depots and customers run on three disconnected tools and a WhatsApp group. Nobody agrees where a shipment is.
Approach
One offline-first mobile app on a shared event stream, with depot dashboards and a public tracking API built on the same source of truth.
Engineered for
Full chain-of-custody, offline capture in low-coverage routes, and a single shipment status every party can see.

Illustrative blueprint — not a client engagement.

Healthcare

Clinical data lakehouse

The problem
Clinical, claims and pharmacy data sit in separate systems, so every regulatory report is assembled by hand each quarter.
Approach
Ingest to a governed lakehouse, model to a tested semantic layer, and generate reports from versioned transformations rather than spreadsheets.
Engineered for
Reproducible reporting, row-level access control, and a full lineage trail from figure back to source record.

Illustrative blueprint — not a client engagement.

Engagement models

Three ways to put us to work.

Same engineers, same standards — the difference is who holds the roadmap and how you would rather carry the risk.

Fixed outcome

Project delivery

A defined scope, a costed plan and a delivery date we sign up to.

  • Scope and price fixed after discovery
  • Fortnightly demos against the plan
  • Warranty period after go-live
  • Best for a launch with a hard date

Most chosen

Dedicated pod

A cross-functional squad that joins your roadmap and stays with it.

  • 4–8 engineers, designer and delivery lead
  • Your backlog, your ceremonies
  • Monthly rolling, 30 days' notice
  • Best for a product that keeps evolving

Run and improve

Platform care

We keep what is already live healthy, observable and cheaper to run.

  • SLOs, on-call and incident response
  • Quarterly reliability and cost review
  • Security patching and dependency care
  • Best for systems you cannot afford to lose

Our commitments

What we hold ourselves to.

These are the targets written into a SmartRio engagement — the standards you can hold us to from the first sprint, not marketing figures.

Availability target99.95%

Uptime objective we design, test and report production systems against.

First working build14days

From kickoff to software running in a live environment you can click.

Sev-1 response30min

Acknowledged by a named engineer, any hour, on every care contract.

Code & IP ownership100%

Yours from the first commit, in your repositories, with no lock-in.

Start here

Bring us the system that keeps you up at night.

A 60-minute technical review with an engineering lead — no sales call. You leave with a written opinion on your architecture and a realistic view of what the work takes.

General & new businessinfo@smartriolimited.org
Lagos

Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

London

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