Started on Elance. Still here — and better at it.
Onizuka Studio started as a web development agency on Elance — which eventually became Upwork. We were among the first agencies on the platform, and we've maintained a 5-star rating across every project since.
Over the years we watched our clients' needs evolve. Building a website wasn't enough — they needed the systems behind it to actually work. Forms that fed CRMs. Onboarding that ran itself. Invoices that generated automatically from a signed estimate.
So we expanded. Today Onizuka Studio handles both sides — the site your customers see and the systems that make your business run — under one roof, with one team that knows your whole setup.
A husband and wife team. Both sides of the equation.
We're deliberately small. Every project is handled by the people who know your business — not passed to a junior developer after the sales call.
The bridge between business needs and technical possibility. Michelle spent a decade in top-performing sales roles — rep of the year at Alltel, US Cellular, and Verizon — before pivoting to systems design, which means she speaks both languages fluently.
She's the one who figures out what you actually need, maps the logic that makes it work, and has been building automation systems long before anyone called it that. She's also the homeschool mom behind HomeschoolDesk.AI.
A DNN developer since 2004 — one of the most experienced on the platform. Michael builds fast, clean, and maintainable. His work has contributed to security patches running on DNN installations worldwide, and his custom modules and themes consistently hit 99+ PageSpeed scores.
He's the one actually in the code — building the platforms, the modules, and the integrations that make everything run without someone having to babysit it.
12+ platforms. One team that knows them all.
We're platform-agnostic. We use the right tool for the job — and we know most of the tools.
Ready to work with a team that actually sticks around?
Tell us what you're working with and what's driving you crazy. We'll take it from there.