Kanject began in 2021 as a small team of .NET engineers in Lagos solving the same AWS integration problems over and over for fintech, govtech, edtech, proptech, e-commerce, insurtech and healthtech teams across Africa. The name itself is drawn from Akanji, a Yoruba name meaning "the one whose touch gives life" — a nod to what good tooling should do: quietly bring a system to life.
What started as internal libraries for our own projects became Kanject.Core on NuGet — and within months, teams in Europe, Latin America and Asia were downloading it. The problems we were solving weren't African problems; they were engineering problems, felt by any team trying to ship .NET services on AWS.
Today, Kanject powers production workloads in more than five countries — and counting. We've kept our headquarters in Lagos and our heritage in our name — but our customers, our contributors, and our roadmap are global. Our job is the same as it was on day one: make the undifferentiated hard parts disappear, so your team can focus on the product only you can build.