We take the staffing side
off your plate
Getting the right people, and keeping them, is the most draining part of running a business. Software engineers, AI operators, product managers and more, from across Africa.
The challenge
Hire. Onboard. Perform. Lose. Repeat.
In our experience, the people leading a growing company don't run out of time. They run out of energy for the work they got into this for. Finding and hiring people, contracts, compliance, the person who leaves in month 8: none of it is your actual work, it pulls at your attention every week, and it makes you the owner of problems you can't solve yourself.
The good news: that same work is someone else's craft. There are people who are built for it and get energy from it. The work isn't beneath anyone; it's just sitting with the wrong person.
Tunga company figures, as of September 2026
Talk to us
Tell us about your situation. Talk to one of our team members.
Founder
ErnestoSpruyt
Ernesto founded Tunga in 2015 on the belief that economic opportunity should flow toward talent, wherever it exists.
Head of Delivery
DorcasOlawale
Oversees every placement from match to long-term retention. Ensures clients and developers both get what they came for.
Chief Commercial Officer
BartLeijssenaar
Leads commercial strategy and client relationships. Translates business needs into fast, accurate talent briefs.
Our answer
You run the team. We run the club around it.
Everything about the work stays yours: what gets built, how, who takes what, and whether it is good. Everything about having the people to do it is ours: finding them, vetting them, contracts, payments and compliance, onboarding, keeping them, and replacing them when someone leaves or it isn't working.
- Hand-vetted, not listed
- Time-zone aligned with EU
- Operational within a week when you can move fast
What it looks like in practice
You tell us what you need.
Describe the role, or just the situation you're in. We search our pool of 3,500 vetted professionals across 38 African countries and come back with a shortlist of people who fit. The choice is always yours.
Someone joins your team.
We handle the contract, onboarding, payments, compliance and administration, so your new team member can contribute quickly. You have one contract, with Tunga. There is nothing to set up locally, and when a role ends, you tell us and we handle the rest.
We stay involved.
Our work doesn't stop at onboarding. We make sure the conditions are right: contracts, payments, compliance and administration handled, regular check-ins, cultural bridging, and performance guidance when it helps. How your new team member performs is your call, not ours. If you say it isn't working, we replace them.
Since 2015
Why Africa
Tunga was founded in 2015 on the conviction that geographic borders are not a measure of capability. Africa is the only continent with a growing working-age population, and its professionals are still overlooked for international roles. We prepare them for international, high-end roles and help growing companies build teams with them. And we nurture the pool rather than deplete it, through our own Tunga Academy and by backing sports and soft-skills programs across the continent.
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Client stories
Companies that moved forward
Real outcomes from companies that stopped letting staffing be a bottleneck.
Provolve & Amos: 6 Years of Scalable Cloud Development
In 2017, Provolve IT needed to modernise their legacy on-premise software into a cloud-native solution but could not afford Dutch developer rates. Tunga connected them with Amos from Uganda, who became their lead developer for 6 continuous years.
A Partnership Based on Flexibility and Scalability
Broekhuis needed to merge internal and customer-facing software teams with flexible developer access — scaling from 1 to 5 at peak and back down — without the burden of traditional hiring and layoffs.
rb2 & Tunga: A Partnership Built on Shared Values and Goals
rb2 wanted to diversify their developer pool beyond China, overcoming language and time zone barriers. Tunga established an African development centre that grew from 3 developers to 17 and evolved into a joint venture.
Fair to say
When we're not the right fit
If saving on cost is the main reason you're looking, we're probably not the right fit. Our rates make roles viable that would not be feasible to fill locally, but what we're built for is companies that are growing and want the staffing side of it handled.
Recent thinking
What we're seeing
What we write about: getting the right people and keeping them, how AI is changing the work, and how we work.
You got into this to build. Let's get you back to it.
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