Founder-led engineering, built to last.
Nyxora Labs is founded by Edwin Lungatso — a Nairobi-based software engineer who has co-founded two startups, shipped AI products during a US fellowship, and spent years building production systems where things actually have to work.
Edwin Lungatso
Nairobi, Kenya
Nyxora Labs is a founder-led engineering studio operating out of Nairobi. The work spans software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and the foundational practices that make security a first-class concern — not an afterthought.
Edwin built his engineering instincts across a range of environments: co-founding FarMight, an agritech platform for Kenyan smallholder farmers; shipping five AI products in seven weeks at the Headstarter AI Fellowship in the US; and delivering e-commerce systems for clients at Uppr.works. He co-organises Claude Community Kenya, one of the fastest-growing AI practitioner communities in East Africa.
The studio is intentionally small — each engagement gets direct founder attention. Security isn’t aspirational here: Sentinel, a live posture scanner, is the artifact behind the claim. The long-term direction is toward intelligent systems and deeper security work — an ambition the architecture and brand are built to support without rework.
How the work gets done.
- Engineering, not decoration
- Software that solves the problem in front of it, sized to the actual constraints. No premature abstraction, no infrastructure built for hypothetical scale.
- Systems thinking
- Every component is part of a larger system. The interesting decisions live at the boundaries — how parts compose, where state lives, who is responsible for what.
- Long-term clarity
- Code, infrastructure, and documentation should still make sense in a year. Clarity is a feature; it has to be designed in, not added later.
- Operational discipline
- A system that nobody can debug is not really running. Observability, runbooks, and the boring work of maintenance are part of the deliverable.
Trajectory.
- 2026
Nyxora Labs founded
Established as a founder-led engineering studio in Nairobi, focused on intelligent software systems.
- 2025
Claude Community Kenya
Co-organised CCK from the ground up — seven professional lanes, community rulebook, events across Nairobi and Kisumu.
- 2024
Headstarter AI Fellowship
Shipped five AI products in seven weeks. Co-founded CookyChef — an AI-powered food tech startup — as the capstone project.
- 2024
Uppr.works
Delivered custom e-commerce solutions for SMEs, artists, and organisations transitioning from physical to digital operations.
- 2023–2025
FarMight — Co-Founder & CTO
Co-founded an agritech platform connecting Kenyan smallholder farmers to experts, inputs, and on-site services. Led all technical decisions from inception (late 2023) through investor pitch and beta; the venture wound down in April 2025.
Tools currently in rotation.
- Languages
- TypeScriptPythonJavaScriptSQLBash
- Frontend
- Nuxt 3Vue 3Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
- Backend
- Node.jsFastAPINestJSPostgreSQLPrismaMongoDB
- Infrastructure
- AWSVercelRailwayDockerGitHub Actions
- Security
- OWASP ASVSSecrets ManagementLinux HardeningNetworkingCEH (in progress)
Let’s build something durable.
If founder-led, systems-focused engineering is what your project needs, start here.