About NiwaSpecialist engineering expertise across software and infrastructure.
Niwa Solutions Ltd Consulting brings together DevOps, cloud, security, infrastructure, and Quality Engineering specialists for startups and SMEs.
Our purpose
Make quality, security, and reliability part of how technology is delivered.
Growing businesses need robust software-delivery and technology foundations, but may not be ready to build large internal platform and QA teams. We bridge that gap with practical implementation and specialist consulting.
Engagements range from QA assessments and automation projects to cloud migrations, CI/CD transformation, incident recovery, retained operational support, and team enablement.
Consulting expertiseSpecialists working across one delivery lifecycle.
Niwa combines infrastructure engineering and software quality expertise rather than presenting every capability as the work of one consultant.
Nicholas is a technology engineering leader with experience across DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure, cloud security, automation, CI/CD, microservices, and software development. His background spans financial services, telecommunications, consumer operations, and software engineering environments.
- DevOps leadership and delivery transformation
- AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering and production operations
- CI/CD, Jenkins, and release automation
- Kubernetes, microservices, and scalable infrastructure
- Linux, shell scripting, Python, and automation
- Cloud security and infrastructure management
- Software engineering, web, and mobile application development
- IT service management and cross-functional technical leadership
AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web ServicesITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service ManagementAXELOSBSc Computer ScienceJomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyLanguagesEnglish and Swahili
Saran supports teams with hands-on software quality assurance, test automation, QA strategy, and modern quality processes designed to work within CI/CD and DevOps environments.
- Software Quality Assurance
- QA strategy and process improvement
- Manual, web, mobile, and API testing
- UI and test automation
- Performance testing with K6
- CI/CD test integration
- Shift-left and Agile QA practices
- Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Postman, REST Assured
- JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
- Jira, TestRail, Xray, and Zephyr