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Summary
Abraham began as a programmer in England and later held developer roles at firms including IBM and Santander UK. A 2023 profile names Abraham founder and CEO of Safiri, a Tanzanian transport booking app, while a 2026 article gives a different founding year and adds a co-founder.
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A 2023 profile on We Are Tech Africa presents Abraham as an IT specialist and entrepreneur from Tanzania, with a Manchester University degree in information technology earned in 2012. The profile credits Abraham with more than 14 years of experience building software and web applications. Its career timeline begins in 2009 with a programmer job at Zippro System Ltd in England.
Later roles in the profile include developer posts at The Virtu Group, Spindrift, IBM, Cambridge University Press, Santander UK and Instant Access Technologies. In 2021, the profile says, Abraham became a senior full-stack engineer at Akrod, an English fintech. The profile describes Abraham as founder and director of Itule Limited, the software publisher that developed Safiri App. It also names Abraham technology director at Hexis, an English company that uses AI to build personalized nutrition plans for athletes and coaches.
According to the 2023 profile, Safiri is a ticket-booking platform that connects transport operators and travelers across Tanzania. Travelers can buy tickets from home or the office, get live updates on vehicle location and entrust parcels to registered transport companies. Bus operators get a simple ticketing system that works with mobile money and SMS. The profile says Safiri was one of 12 African startups selected for the Africa Tech Summit in London on 23 June. Abraham was due to speak there on public transport and logistics in Africa.
The 2023 profile says Abraham founded Safiri App in 2022 and names Abraham CEO. An April 2026 article from the same outlet gives a different account. It dates the company to 2020 and says Abraham co-founded it with Justine Nsemwa. The 2026 article calls Safiri a mobility marketplace based in Dar es Salaam, where travelers compare and book tickets for buses, trains, boats and planes. It reports more than 10,000 downloads on the Google Play Store and describes operator tools for digitizing sales, scheduling and tracking vehicles.













