We're a dev agency that got tired of the gap between coding tutorials and real work.
CiroStack has been building products for clients since 2019. In 2024 we launched Academy to share exactly how we build — AI-assisted workflows, client briefs, and all.
Our teaching philosophy
Four principles that guide every course we build.
Learn to build, not copy
We teach you to understand AI output, not blindly accept it. Every AI-generated line of code gets explained.
Real-world projects only
No toy apps. Every capstone is a deployable product with a live URL. We use the same briefs CiroStack uses for actual clients.
Community-first
Every course comes with a WhatsApp study group. The Launchpad community has 3,200+ builders across Nigeria and the diaspora.
Certificates that mean something
A CiroStack Academy certificate verifies you shipped a real product — not just passed a multiple-choice quiz.
AI is a power tool. You still need to know how to use a hammer.
We build with AI every day at CiroStack. Claude generates our boilerplate. Copilot suggests completions. GPT-4 writes our test cases. We love these tools.
But we've also hired developers who couldn't debug AI-generated code because they didn't understand what it was doing. That's what we're fixing.
Every AI-assisted lesson in CiroStack Academy shows the AI output, then breaks down the logic step by step — the same way a senior dev would explain it to a junior.
The goal isn't to replace your thinking. It's to make you 10x faster while making you a better engineer.
Meet the instructors
The CiroStack team — all active practitioners, no lecture-only academics.
Tobi Adeyemi
Lead Frontend · 8 yrs React + TypeScript
5
Courses
6,200
Students
Kemi Lawal
UI/UX Director · Figma evangelist
3
Courses
3,100
Students
Chidi Okonkwo
Backend Lead · Node.js + Postgres
4
Courses
2,800
Students
Graduate and get noticed by real clients.
The best capstone projects get flagged for CiroStack's talent pipeline. When a client project needs a specific skill set, our team pulls from the pipeline first — real opportunities for Academy graduates.
Complete a course
Build and deploy your Ship It capstone project.
Get reviewed
Instructors score your project and may flag it for the pipeline.
Get referred
CiroStack connects top graduates to client project opportunities.