Design meets Engineering.
Two practices.
twofivesix is a studio in Kampala, run by Obaya Dralega.
We work with a small number of clients each year. We don’t take on work we can’t do well.
The studio was founded by a former Assistant Vice President at a London bank, where the software had to be fast, correct, and accountable for every cent it touched. That instinct hasn't left. We don't vibe-code applications that businesses depend on. We don't ship anything near money that hasn't been built properly. And we don't think Uganda's most ambitious businesses should be settling for another WordPress theme.
What we do, instead, is build brands, identities and the web presences around them, with the technical discipline of a trading floor and the visual ambition of an art gallery. For small businesses, for emerging Ugandan startups, for anyone who wants the work to look like it was made on purpose.
Former AVP Software Developer, global bank — $7T in assets under management. Electronic bond trading, real-time FX risk, equity derivatives pricing.
Founding member of Afropocene StudioLab — Uganda's leading contemporary artists collective. Supported by the United Nations Development Programme.
Over 40 projects shipped since 2021. E-commerce, hospitality, healthcare, finance, arts. All built to last.
Trained clients on Sanity CMS, payment integrations, and SEO fundamentals. The work doesn't end at launch.
The bank years, in order.
He graduated with first class honours in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, and had already secured his job offer from the bank in his second year.
He started in Credit e-Trading, connecting a US bond brokerage to Credit Suisse’s internal systems for electronic bond trading.
From there he moved into Big Data engineering in FX Risk Technology, working on systems that processed terabytes of data per second across every FX region worldwide.
He then worked in Equity Derivatives, building real-time pricing engines for traders.
One note: Obaya’s LinkedIn account was hacked, and he is actively working to reinstate it. (If you work at LinkedIn, please help!)