Nairobi
Makes a six-inch variable photon emitter used across 49 industries, from agriculture to cinematography. Ben is the fractional VP of Technology at Nairobi.
Nairobi beats the Legacy Leviathan!
After years of developers who were not up to the job, Nairobi's founder asked Ben to build the iPhone app himself.
The Legacy LeviathanSound like your week?The work
What we found
A large first-generation iPhone app, about a thousand files, and the device firmware, each tested on its own, so a change on one side could quietly break the other.
What we did
Rebuilt Nairobi Control from scratch with a fully custom interface, keeping its link to the firmware unchanged; control of one Nairobi or a whole group at once over Bluetooth Mesh; wireless firmware updates through a private, verified update service; a test harness that runs the real firmware code beside the app; and automated build, security and release pipelines.
How it runs now
The second generation of the app, Nairobi Control 5.0, has been on the App Store and in use since 26 September 2026.
See it working
The result
From a stalled project to a released app in about nine months.
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