The Tunga Blog

On our blog, we document our journey to unleash Africa's tech talent as a remote-first organization. Browse through our stories for reliable data on a wide range of topics, including software developer salaries, insights into the global staff augmentation market, and information about Africa as a source of offshore software development.

Company Culture: How We Mimic Football Club Ajax

Our company culture is heavily inspired by football legend Johan Cruyff. So often we ask one simple question: what if we were Ajax?

Example of Cultural Relativism in Business: 3 A...

At Tunga we encounter examples of cultural relativism everyday. Here are three things that we have found to work over the years.

Well-designed User Research is a Big Success &#...

User research: how can you get the assurance that you are looking for, but maintain the flexibility needed for software development to actually work.

Niluk App Built by Tunga Devs: “A Match Made in...

Tunga has been working on the development of the Niluk app since the beginning of this year. Niluk is a mobile app to combat loneliness. Elena Köstler, the founder of Niluk, explains.

300 Remote Software Engineers: How We Manage Th...

“When you’re working with more than 300 developers across Africa, you spent a lot of time onboarding remote software engineers on different projects and for different clients.”

Outsourcing Insights by Tunga COO Reinier

“I thought this was the major downside of outsourcing; that you need face to face contact to truly understand each other. Guess I was wrong.” Insights by Tunga COO Reinier.

Tunga in Lagos, Spending Quality Time With Our ...

In this video, Ernesto & Bart travel to Lagos, Nigeria to spend quality time with the existing Tunga software developers community there, and to host a meetup for aspiring developers.

Why Tunga is Important According to CTO David S...

David, CTO at Tunga, explains that the local market in Uganda doesn’t offer modern technology and doesn’t apply to the skills of African developers.

Tunga Meetup at the Greek Campus in Egypt

In this vlog, Bart talks about the great dynamics that arise when bringing developers with different backgrounds together. Tunga meetup at the Greek Campus in Egypt