Company · About

Building the cloud
for the AI era.

Darwa is an AI-native cloud platform for creating, deploying, running, and growing software. Today, building means assembling a coding environment, AI tools, infrastructure, databases, hosting, domains, email, and monitoring. We believe it should be one experience.

Founded 2026 · Dubai19 regionsFree tier that stays awake
2026
Founded
Dubai, with a distributed team
19
Regions
across four continents
6
Products
compute, data, and an AI layer
3
Support windows
Dubai, Lisbon, Toronto
What we are building

Three worlds, brought together

With Darwa you go from an idea to a running application — AI helping you build the software, Darwa Cloud running it, and the platform continuously helping you operate and improve it.

01
AI Development

An AI-native development environment that understands your codebase and can help you plan, build, test, debug, and improve software.

Darwa works with the world's leading AI models and intelligently combines them to give developers the best possible experience.

02
Cloud Infrastructure

A simple cloud for deploying and running applications, APIs, workers, databases, storage, AI agents, and other workloads.

Instead of spending hours configuring infrastructure, developers tell Darwa what they want to run and let the platform handle the complexity.

03
Web & Business Infrastructure

Web hosting, domains, business email, websites, and other essential services — a simple way to establish and operate a digital presence.

One account, one bill, and one place to see what is running and what it costs.

Beyond an AI coding tool

We are building the infrastructure around the whole software lifecycle

Not another coding assistant. Our ambition is for Darwa to become the place where software is not only created, but where it lives and evolves.

Idea

Describe what you want to exist.

Build

AI writes with you, in your codebase.

Test

Checks run before anything ships.

Deploy

One step to a real environment.

Host

Compute, data, domains, email.

Monitor

Signals with a named cause.

Improve

A specific next change, not a chart.

Our vision
“I want to build this.”
And it exists.

The next generation of software will not be built the way it is today. Developers will increasingly describe what they want to achieve, while AI handles more of the implementation, testing, deployment, infrastructure, and operations.

Darwa is building toward that future — a platform that can turn an idea into software, deploy it to the cloud, keep it running, protect it, and continuously improve it.

Why we started

The gap is not capability. It is operating cost.

Every team we worked on hit the same wall from one of two directions. Either the platform was pleasant right up to the point where the architecture needed something real, or it was capable enough for anything and required a full-time specialist to keep honest.

We think the answer is not another abstraction that hides the machine, but a platform that operates it for you and then tells you exactly what it did, what it cost, and what to change. That is why almost every screen in Darwa ends in a specific recommendation rather than a chart.

It also shapes what we refuse to build. Nothing in the product depends on you not reading the bill, not knowing which region your data sits in, or not being able to leave.

Too small

The simple platforms run out of room the moment you need a private network, a replica, or a queue with real retry semantics.

Too large

The powerful ones hand you a console with four hundred services and a bill nobody on the team can explain line by line.

The cost

Teams pay twice — once in money, once in the attention of the two engineers who understand the setup.

Who is building it

The people behind the platform

A small founding team across three time zones, all of whom carry the pager for what they design.

Mohammed Dhabli
Founder & CEO

Founded Darwa in Dubai after a decade of watching small teams lose their roadmap to infrastructure work. Sets product direction and carries the pager like everyone else.

Abdul Kumshey
Co-founder · CTO & Head of Product

Owns the architecture of the platform and the shape of the product. Responsible for the rule that every screen ends in a recommendation.

Chen Yuxin
Chief Engineering Officer

Runs engineering across compute, data, and the control plane. Built the release process that lets a first-week engineer ship to production safely.

Tran Quoc Bao
Lead AI Engineer

Leads the AI layer — model routing, agent execution, and the evaluation work that decides which model handles which task.

What we believe

Six principles we are willing to be held to

These are not values on a wall. Each one has already cost us a feature, a shortcut, or a deal, and we would rather write them down than rediscover them under pressure.

01
Defaults are the product

Most outages trace back to a setting nobody chose deliberately. We ship the safe default and make the unsafe one explicit.

02
Explain, then act

A platform that fixes something silently teaches you nothing. Ours names the cause, proposes the change, and waits for you.

03
No pricing traps

No per-seat surprises or metered monitoring. Managed model usage includes a disclosed 30% service margin, and prices appear in the UI before use.

04
Free should be usable

A free tier that sleeps or expires is a demo. Ours stays awake and keeps its backups, because that is the only way to evaluate honestly.

05
Own the boring parts

Brokers, poolers, certificates, cron boxes, image pipelines. Nobody was ever promoted for running them well.

06
Say what is not built

Roadmap items are labelled Soon and nothing above them depends on them. We would rather lose a deal than win one on a feature that does not exist.

How we work

Small team, written decisions, on-call together

01DistributedDubai, Lisbon, Toronto, and wherever the right person already lives. Three overlapping windows, no mandatory night shifts.
02Written firstProposals are documents, not meetings. Decisions and their reasoning are searchable a year later.
03Everyone deploysEngineers ship to production in their first week, behind the same approvals as everyone else.
04Everyone is on callIncluding founders. The person who designed a system carries the pager for it.
05Support is engineeringTickets are triaged by the team that owns the service. There is no support tier that cannot read code.
Where we are

Three windows, one rotation

Dubai
07:00 — 16:00 GST

Headquarters, platform and data teams, and the primary on-call rotation.

Lisbon
08:00 — 17:00 WET

Product, developer experience, and the European support window.

Toronto
09:00 — 18:00 ET

AI layer, billing, and coverage through the North American day.

The future
Build with AI. Run on Darwa.

As AI becomes more capable, Darwa will evolve from an AI-assisted development platform into an increasingly autonomous software and cloud platform — so teams can focus on what they want to build, while Darwa handles more of the complexity required to make it real.

Work with us

We are hiring

Platform, product, and support roles across three time zones. The hiring process is four steps and we pay for the take-home exercise.

Press & brand

Writing about us?

Announcements are in the newsroom, and logos, colours, and usage rules are in the brand kit. Media enquiries go to press@darwa.com.