Product & platform backends
Strapi as a core backend for SaaS products, internal tools, and platforms where content and data power real functionality.
Otterdev did an awesome job in revamping our old website! We were able to show clearly what our services are and help clients understand what we could offer to accelerate their growth.
Yashwin
Founder, KPI Media
They have an excellent team that can take a brief and give you website design strategy that truly reflects your brand. They’re able to produce code that performs extremely well, even with complicated designs.
Nicolas Chan
Chief Strategist & Head of Digital, APAC Hoffman Agency
We have been working with the Otterdev team for over a year now and the collaboration, ownership, and quality of work produced has never wavered. The team understands the needs of businesses today, and goes above and beyond to deliver the most ideal customer experience using design thinking frameworks.
Czaraim Carreon
Director of Operations, Verra Asia
Otterdev has been incredibly helpful and insightful throughout our eCommerce strategy revamp. [they were] not only able to provide us with the solutions but elegantly execute them, as well!
Mili Kale
Co-Founder, Moom Health
Awesome to work with. Couldn’t have asked for a better team to work on our project.
Leighroy Sherman
Founder, Hillspeed
The team at Otterdev has been absolutely incredible - Overall, the delivery of the final product was managed smoothly and efficiently
Rachael Kam
Founder, The First Refresh
Otterdev have been an exceptional partner who embody trifecta of customer-centricity, technical excellence and business acumen - a rarity in development services. The team have gone above and beyond to advise on and co-design market-leading solutions, and have delivered them at a very high-quality in a cost-effective and timely manner. We couldn't recommend Otterdev highly enough!
Bona
COO, Capsho
Our Approach
What we do with Strapi
Strapi as a core backend for SaaS products, internal tools, and platforms where content and data power real functionality.
Custom REST or GraphQL APIs designed for web apps, mobile apps, and multiple consuming services.
We audit and refactor Strapi projects that have become hard to extend, slow, or risky to change over time.
We help teams migrate to Strapi, or safely upgrade existing Strapi installations, when backend control, performance, or maintainability becomes critical.
Our approach to Strapi is model-driven, governance-aware, and designed to scale without slowing teams down.
Why teams choose Strapi
Notable Projects
To see us in action, explore our works. Our internationally acclaimed, award-winning projects lift us above the crowd.
Already on Strapi but experiencing issues?
We’re often brought in when Strapi becomes deeply embedded in a product or platform, but the backend starts to feel risky, slow to change, or hard to reason about. In most cases, these problems stem from how the data models, APIs, and permissions were designed early on.
Content types and relationships grew organically, making the system hard to maintain.
APIs slow down as data volume and relationships increase.
Roles, permissions, or authentication logic don’t map cleanly to real-world use cases.
Product behaviour and content management are tightly coupled, increasing risk.
Knowledge lives in code rather than documentation, making handover and iteration difficult.
Migrations & upgrades to Strapi
We commonly help teams migrate to Strapi, or upgrade existing Strapi installations, when off-the-shelf CMS platforms start limiting product flexibility, performance, or compliance needs.
Teams also come to us when they need to safely modernise an existing Strapi setup without disrupting production systems.
Get started on Strapi.
Whether you’re building a new backend, upgrading from Strapi v4 to v5, migrating from a restrictive CMS, or fixing a Strapi setup that’s becoming hard to manage, we’re here to help.
