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Edson Francisco
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Edson Francisco

Beira, Mozambique

Digital Systems Architect · Co-founder of FAMS

I design and build systems that work in the field.

Hands-on technical leadership: I coordinate teams and projects with international partners and stay in the code every day — backends, APIs and SaaS platforms for agriculture, public institutions, health and communities in Mozambique, with apps that work offline.

Committed in parallel to multiple private, national and international projects of real relevance and socio-economic impact — from private companies and agribusiness to public institutions and development cooperation programmes.

Featured work

Platforms I lead and keep in production, plus two success stories with agribusinesses: from the problem to the decisions that held up in the field.

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Experience

  1. 2021 – Present

    FAMS – Farmer & Agent Management System

    Co-founder · Chief Technology & Product Officer · Lead developer

    • Technical lead and main developer of the Laravel backend, mobile API, migrations, tests and CI/CD.
    • 99 releases shipped between April 2021 and September 2026, with a PT/EN changelog visible to customers.
    • More than 55,000 farmers digitised across 7 provinces and 9 value chains (half of them women), over 10,000 inputs distributed and tracked, and up to US$1.7 million in cumulative payments to farmers, recorded in FAMS.
    • Contributes to SDGs 2, 8, 9 and 12 (and, as complementary goals, 1, 5, 10 and 16): smallholder productivity and income, transparent payments, digital value chains and traceability from farmer to factory.
    • Traceability use cases: honey (MHC), from beekeeper to processed batch, and copra (OLIMAX, since 2024), from field and factory-gate purchases to oil produced, stored and shipped — including data import, traceability reports and an impact dashboard with metrics.
    • Geo-referenced mapping of production fields and a farmer dossier, with a farmer ID card.
    • Move to multi-tenant SaaS (FAMS Mahala); a farmer credit-scoring system is planned next.
    • Field implementation and training for agribusiness companies, with partners such as GIZ, NIRAS and COMO Consult.
  2. Nov 2022 – Present

    EQUIP Moçambique – Associação Empoderando Moçambique

    IT Manager · Technology Department Lead

    • Lead the technology team that builds and runs the association's products (FAMS, Kukura, Abastece, JURIS, Fonte da Vida).
    • Management and coordination without leaving the code: daily programming, code review, integrations, architecture decisions, watching deploy pipelines and fixing production problems directly.
    • Technical supervision of JURIS in production, including Juris Bot on WhatsApp (launched 30 Sep 2026), and IT governance: security, vendors and continuous improvement.
    • Technical coordination of projects with international partners such as GIZ, NIRAS and Enabel — for example, the FAMS rollout to six agribusinesses supported by NIRAS under VaMoz Competir (2025–2026).
  3. Oct 2025 – Jul 2026

    NIRAS – VaMoz Competir (GIZ) · consultoria

    National Short-Term Expert for Digitalisation

    • Coordinated the FAMS rollout to the companies supported by NIRAS under VaMoz Competir, a GIZ project commissioned by BMZ and co-financed by the EU.
    • Field missions at DREAM Agro, Green Agro Commodities, PROIMAC and Moz Agri: configuration, training in farmer registration with georeferencing, and adoption follow-up.
    • Direct FAMS data access for NIRAS and GIZ's Monitoring and Evaluation team, and attendance exports for the GIZ/Reframe analysis.
  4. 2025 – 2026

    TechSolutions, Lda (freelance)

    Developer & technical consultant

    • FUNAE — grievance redress platform (MGQR): automatic assignment, notifications, multichannel login and much of the Vue frontend.
    • E.Acacia — review, testing and App Store / Google Play submission of a municipal fee payment app.
  5. Feb 2021 – Nov 2023

    GIZ – ProEcon (com COMO Consult) · consultoria

    Consultant, trainer and FAMS technical lead

    • FAMS rollout to ten agribusinesses in four value chains: requirements, data migration, configuration, training and support.
    • Requests from these clients became modules I built in the backend; in 2022 the company was selected in a GIZ national tender to implement FAMS.
    • Sociedade de Mutuali (2023) — cotton fibre factory: farmer registration, inputs on credit, first- and second-grade cotton purchases with debt deduction, transport, storage, production and quality grading.
  6. Feb 2022 – Jun 2022

    TechSolutions, Lda

    Programmer & systems analyst

    • Djobar — Laravel recruitment platform: timed candidate tests, queued SMS, bulk import and interview scheduling.
  7. May 2019 – Sep 2022

    EQUIP Moçambique – Associação Empoderando Moçambique

    Systems implementation technician & software developer

    • APIs and back-offices for Consultare, JURIS, H-Link, Fonte da Vida and Start Escolar.
    • System implementation and operational support for the association's digital services.
  8. Oct 2018 – Nov 2018

    ENSYS (Enterprise Systems & Development), Lda

    Systems & digital monitoring intern

    • Vehicle control, monitoring and video surveillance systems.

About

Digital Systems Architect

I'm a software engineer and digital systems architect based in Beira, Mozambique. Since 2021 I've been co-founder and technical lead of FAMS, the farmer and agribusiness management platform that grew out of a GIZ initiative and which I keep in production: backend, the API behind the field apps, tests and deploy pipeline.

Before and around FAMS, I built and maintained APIs for legal information (JURIS), first aid (Consultare), patient referral (H-Link) and Christian resources (Fonte da Vida), a grievance management platform for FUNAE and, today, the modernisation of a polytechnic institute's academic system.

My roles have always required management and coordination — of teams, clients and projects with partners such as GIZ, NIRAS and Enabel — and I have never left the technical side. I code every day, review code, build integrations, make architecture decisions, watch deploy pipelines and step in directly to fix production problems. I'm ready for internationally coordinated projects.

I work where product meets engineering. I enjoy complex problems and solving them with simple decisions that survive years of real use — offline sync, per-company data isolation, small and frequent releases, and documentation the next person can follow.

Certifications (36)

Leadership & Entrepreneurship

  • SPRINT 2025 For Founders
    Renew Capital · Jun 2025
  • Digital Transformation
    Simplilearn · Oct 2022
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset
    DIO · Sep 2020
  • Fundamentals of Intrapreneurship
    DIO · Sep 2020
  • Bootcamp: Become Remote
    DIO · Aug 2020
  • Linguagem Corporal no Mundo Digital
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022

Security & IT

  • Cybersecurity & IT Awareness Training: Data Protection, GDPR and Information Security
    Internal / Professional Training · 2024
  • Microsoft Office 365: Administração
    LinkedIn · Nov 2021
  • Linux: An Introduction to the Operating System
    DIO · Aug 2020
  • Container Orchestration with Docker
    DIO · Oct 2020

Software Quality & Testing

  • LambdaTest Software Testing Professional Certificate
    LambdaTest (TestMu AI) · Dec 2024
  • Succeeding in Software Testing
    LinkedIn · Dec 2024
  • Agile Testing
    LinkedIn · Dec 2024
  • Software Testing Tips Weekly
    LinkedIn · Dec 2024
  • Programming Foundations: Software Testing/QA
    LinkedIn · Dec 2024

Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day (Live Training)
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Feb 2022
  • Developing CI/CD Solutions with Azure DevOps
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022
  • DevOps with AWS
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022
  • Nail Your DevOps Interview
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022
  • Succeeding in DevOps
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022
  • Bootcamp Immersão AWS com Docker
    Oregon EAD · Oct 2022
  • Bootcamp: Cloud Computing & Serverless
    DIO · Jul 2020
  • Software Development with Azure Static Web Apps and GitHub Actions
    DIO · Jul 2020

Software Development

  • Better Eloquent Performance (Laravel)
    LaravelDaily · Jan 2022
  • 10+ Laravel Refactoring Examples
    LaravelDaily · Jan 2022
  • Building RESTful APIs in Laravel
    LinkedIn · Dec 2021
  • Datatables in Laravel
    LaravelDaily · Dec 2021
  • Advanced development in PHP
    DIO · Jul 2021
  • Bootcamp: SPTech Back-end Developer
    DIO · Jul 2021
  • Introdução ao Vue.js 3
    EspecializaTi · Apr 2021
  • Bootcamp: HTML Web Developer
    DIO · Feb 2021
  • JavaScript as a Second Language
    LinkedIn · Jan 2022
  • Concepts and Best Practices with PostgreSQL
    DIO · Jul 2021

Technical Training & Education

  • Programming and Webdesign Technical Course
    Above Moçambique · Oct 2015
  • Course in General and Financial Accounting with Applied Informatics
    Lusac CFL · Dec 2015
  • Third Level of English Course
    Centro Cultural Padre Cirilo (Jesuítas) · Sep 2013

Contact

Open to remote projects, consulting and engineering roles. Email is the fastest way.