Marlvin Basera

IT Systems Engineer & Software Developer

First Class BSc (Honours) graduate in Business Management Systems Design and Applications from the University of Zimbabwe. I build full-stack web applications, AI pipelines and fintech prototypes with Python, Django, React and TypeScript, and my work has been incubated at the UZ Innovation Hub.

1st Class Degree (UZ)

6+ Projects Completed

135% Audience Growth in 9 Months

Featured Work

My Projects

Live Project

Expense Tracker Pro

A personal finance app that helps users stop silent money leaks. Features dual-currency tracking (USD/ZiG), budget velocity alerts, a debt payoff planner, a biometric vault lock and a free Android APK download. Engineered under BASOBASO SOFTWARES.

Personal Finance Dual Currency Android Biometric Security

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UZ Innovation Hub

ZimNest Platform

Digital student accommodation management system. Built the full Django/Python backend and React/TypeScript frontend, with identity verification, transport-aware property search, digital lease generation and an audit-trail messaging system.

Django React TypeScript Python

UZ Innovation Hub

ZimBridge Platform

AI-powered education-to-employment system using NLP skill extraction and cosine similarity to match graduate skills with employer demand, with radar-chart gap analysis and bilingual USSD simulation. Presented at RIIW 2026.

NLP Python Data Visualisation USSD

AI & Research

AURUM System

Machine learning system that analyses Sentinel-2 and Landsat satellite imagery to estimate gold mineralisation probability (~66% accuracy), using SHAP for explainability. Abstract accepted for the POTRAZ-NUST 2026 ICT Research Symposium.

Machine Learning Satellite Imagery SHAP Python

Fintech

Kumbaya Mesh

Prototype for decentralised mobile payments over Bluetooth Low Energy mesh and local Wi-Fi, with offline peer-to-peer transfers, SHA-256 transaction signing and a SQLite ledger with cloud reconciliation. Presented at the UZ/Kwedu Rural Tourism Development Colloquium.

BLE Mesh SHA-256 SQLite Fintech

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Paper House

Business Systems Analyst Attache (Nov 2024 – Aug 2025). Mapped business processes, built an automated lead-capture funnel and grew the digital audience by 135% in 9 months.

Systems Analysis Analytics Process Mapping

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Education & Awards

Academic Excellence

Best Innovation Award

Presented by PROBottlers Rutanhi Beverages, August 2026, for Decentralized Mobile Money Architectures for Rural Tourism: Asynchronous Mesh Networks for Economic Inclusion in Zimbabwe (Kumbaya Mesh), as part of my BSc Honours degree at the University of Zimbabwe.

BSc (Hons) Business Management Systems Design & Applications

University of Zimbabwe, 2026. First Class Degree. Key modules: Systems Analysis and Design, Database Management Systems, E-Commerce and Digital Marketing, Business Process Engineering, Software Project Management, Business Statistics.

University of Zimbabwe Book Prize

Awarded for top academic distinction.

Best Undergraduate Researcher & Innovator

Faculty of Business Management Sciences and Economics, University of Zimbabwe.

Advanced Level Certificate

Silveira High School, 2021. 25 points across Mathematics, Computing, Business Studies, Statistics and Accounting.

Research & Presentations

AURUM abstract accepted at the POTRAZ-NUST 2026 ICT Research Symposium. ZimBridge presented at RIIW 2026. Kumbaya Mesh presented at the UZ/Kwedu Rural Tourism Development Colloquium.

Business Systems Analyst Attache

Paper House, Nov 2024 – Aug 2025. Grew the digital audience by 135% in 9 months through process mapping and an automated lead-capture funnel.

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