WILSON CANDA hi@wilson.africa
Tech Products · Cybernetic Ecology · Holistic Health

Wilson Canda I help teams turn ideas into scalable products, while assuring the health of the whole system they integrate into.

Twelve years building and leading technology across logistics, messaging, fintech, and crypto. I was part of the founding team at a last-mile logistics company later acquired by Walmart, and helped lead the technology on a messenger that became one of South Africa's most-used Android apps.

Fractional CTO Technical advisory Senior platform engineering Strategic partnerships
Curriculum vitae: English (PDF) Português (PDF)
Portrait of Wilson Canda Luanda · Cape Town
Some history

A few things I've helped build.

Walmart
A logistics company I helped build, acquired 2018
Messaging
I was Tech Lead on a messenger app that scaled across Southern Africa to several millions of users
12 years
Logistics · messaging · fintech · crypto
Global reach
Distributed teams · product work delivered on every continent
What I'm doing now

These days I run MetaSolves, a software studio where distributed teams build software while pushing the boundaries of what is possible with AI.

Selected work

Where I've spent my time.

2019 – presentFounder & Product Lead

MetaSolves

Product studio & technology consultancy · Luanda / Cape Town

A product studio with a distributed team across Africa, where people and AI build together. Work has spanned airline operations, logistics infrastructure, crypto trading systems, and event platforms, for clients across several continents. Alongside it I serve as Group CTO at Eco-Perfil and CTO at Eco-Net.

metasolves.com ↗
2018 – 2021Tech Lead

Moya

The #datafree messenger · moya.app

As Tech Lead, I helped lead the technology as Moya grew into one of South Africa's most-used messengers, working on architecture, product direction, and engineering hiring through a period of fast growth.

moya.app ↗
2014 – 2018CTO

WumDrop

Last-mile logistics · acquired by Walmart, 2018

I joined on the founding team and later led engineering as the company grew from prototype to its acquisition by Walmart, through MVP, investment rounds, and thousands of customers, with integrations across South Africa's largest e-commerce companies.

2019 – presentCo-founder

Constellations

Interdisciplinary protocol & ecosystem · constellations.cloud

A protocol for composable cybernetic formations. Active research and building since 2019.

constellations.cloud ↗
Details

Tools, when they help

Python · FastAPI · React / React Native · Node · PostgreSQL · Docker · GCP / AWS, and the agentic tooling. Table stakes, not the point.

Languages

Português native · Русский native · English fluent · Español basic

Closer to home

Systems in nature · language and psychology · philosophy · holistic wellbeing

Recognition

  • MTN App of the Year 2015 · WumDrop team award
  • IBM SmartCamp Winner 2014 · WumDrop team award
  • Top 5 Student 2013 · UWC Computer Science

Speaking

  • Go & concurrency Google Developer Group, Cape Town
  • Building & scaling startups Yoco founder dinner, Cape Town
Let us build something

Let's talk.

Open to fractional CTO, advisory, and partnership work. Based in Luanda and Cape Town.