Alpesh Nakrani

Devlyn AI · Django · Lagos

Django engineering for Lagos teams.

Bypass the Lagos talent shortage. Deploy a senior Django pod aligned to your time zone in 24 hours.

The intersection

Building Django teams in Lagos is structurally constrained by local supply. Hiring senior talent locally in Lagos is brutal. Pipelining takes months, and retention is a constant battle against mega-cap tech companies. Devlyn retainers bypass this localized inflation completely.

AI-augmented Django workflows lean on Cursor and Claude Code for model and serializer scaffolding from database schemas, admin site customisation with list filters and inline editing, migration generation with proper data-migration handling, management command authoring, and Pytest-django test fixture generation — all under senior validation that owns architecture decisions, ORM-level query performance review including select_related and prefetch_related optimisation, N+1 query detection, security review on authentication and permission surfaces, and Django-specific pitfalls like migration ordering conflicts in team environments and signal handler side-effect management. Compression shows up strongest in CRUD API endpoints, admin customisation, and test-suite scaffolding.

Django engagements at Devlyn typically run as one senior backend engineer plus shared DevOps for $4,500–$8,000/month, covering API design, admin customisation, and Celery task architecture. This scales to a two- or three-engineer pod when the roadmap splits into parallel lanes across API and serializer development, async-task infrastructure and background processing, and admin-heavy operations-tooling that needs dedicated UX attention. Pods share a single retainer with flexible allocation.

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Common questions

  • Why hire a Django pod for Lagos operations?

    Because local Lagos hiring timelines are too long. Hiring senior talent locally in Lagos is brutal. Pipelining takes months, and retention is a constant battle against mega-cap tech companies. Devlyn retainers bypass this localized inflation completely. Devlyn's pods provide immediate Django capability aligned with your operating rhythm.

  • What does the Django pod own end-to-end?

    Architecture, security review, and the Django-specific patterns that production-grade work requires. Django pods typically ship multi-tenant SaaS platforms with schema-based or row-level isolation, content-driven products with Wagtail CMS integration, API backends with Django REST Framework for browsable APIs or Django Ninja for high-performance async endpoints, admin-heavy enterprise tooling with deeply customised Django admin interfaces for operations teams, and background-task pipelines using Celery with Redis or RabbitMQ for email delivery, report generation, and data synchronisation. Devlyn engineers ship Django with Postgres as default database, Celery for async task processing with proper retry and dead-letter configuration, HTMX for server-driven interactivity without JavaScript framework overhead, or React and Next.js frontends consuming DRF-served APIs — with Django Debug Toolbar and Sentry for development and production observability.

  • How does timezone alignment work?

    undefined This means your Django pod participates in your daily standups and sprint planning without async delays.

  • What is the cost comparison versus hiring locally in Lagos?

    undefined Devlyn's Django pods start at $2,500/month or $15/hour, drastically reducing the loaded cost without sacrificing senior engineering depth.

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If your roadmap is shaped, book a 30-minute discovery call. We will validate if a Django pod is the right fit for your Lagos operation.