Ambassador Stories, Journal #45: Bernard Sibanda
Welcome to the 45th journal of the “Ambassador Stories” series! 
New stories will be shared with you, whenever new ambassadors join our ranks and provide their stories.
You’ll be able to enjoy the various, unique stories of our Cardano Community Ambassadors: what motivated, and still motivates them, to be part of this amazing and wonderful community?
The Cardano Community Team would also like to thank the Ambassadors for all their continued efforts and participation in sharing their stories with us. 
Please read all about Bernard Sibanda down below! 
Bernard Sibanda, Ambassador:
Bernard recently joined the ranks of Cardano Ambassadors. While still relatively unknown across the wider ecosystem, he has been highly active in South Africa, supporting and educating aspiring developers on their journey to becoming Haskell developers building on Cardano. Students from across the entire continent enrolled weekly into his program.
Ready? Let’s Dive Right In!
1) Tell us a little about yourself. What is your background?
My name is Bernard Sibanda, a global Technology Entrepreneur, Web3 and Software Consultant with a deep focus on Cardano Blockchain, Midnight and Community building.
Key Positions:
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Founder, CTO, Developer Advocate cohort #1, Fullstake Developer, Cardano Ambassador, Catalyst Project Manager, DREP-WIMS:
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Co-founder of ABL Tech and Cardano Africa Live
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EBU-certified Plutus Pioneer (Plutus/Haskell)
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Cohort #1 Plutus Pioneer Developer
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Catalyst Community Reviewer & Funded Projects Manager
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DRep for WIMS-Cardano (ID: drep1yguj8zu48n99pv70yl6ckzt9hdgjy8yjnlqs2uyzcpafnjgu4vkul)
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Intersect Developer Advocate
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Intersect Committe Member 2025-2026
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Cardano Marketer,Promoter and blogger
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Cardano Open Source Contributor
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Cardano communities and events organizer and builder
Cardano Ambassador for South Africa
2) How did you get interested and involved with Blockchain/Crypto?
I was introduced to Blockchain in 2018 by a lady who wanted a website for recruiting Bitcoin users, then researched and fell in love with Satoshi Nakamoto white paper and by end of 2018 registered Women In Move Solutions Pty Ltd together with Satoshi company in South Africa. Struggled a lot until in 2021 when I joined Cardano under WIMS as a trainee smart contract developer. Since then I have built a strong, fast growing community mainly in Africa with over 7 active countries.
3) Why Cardano?
The academic nature of Cardano and women figures like Ada Lovelace were the main attraction point. Haskell Plutus, although challenging, helped me grow in blockchain.
4) How are you contributing to the Cardano Ecosystem as an Ambassador?
Major activities are:
- Developer trainer via Coxygen Global (https://coxygen.co/universities/
- Researcher and builder, e.g., Builders on Demand services (Zonke - Zonke - Cardano Real-World Asset Projects Bounty
- Cardano tooling: Jimba (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jimba
- CLI tool Shadow (coxygen/shadow at main · wimsio/coxygen · GitHub
- Coxylib (https://coxylib.xyz/
- Coxy Wallet (https://coxygen.co/universities/wallet.php
- RWA (Cardano Property Solutions
- Plutus Nix template (Coxy Plutus Playground
Community builder and maintainer (https://cardanoafrica.live/
Promoting CBCA certification, EBU Plutus certification, and ambassadors’ social impact activities via the WIMS Cardano marketing department
Education of non-technical people via music and dance
- (https://www.youtube.com / @wimscardano/videos
Live technical person-to-person support on Cardano activities, mostly smart contract development with Plutus
New member recruitment — I am always bringing new members to Cardano and maintaining existing ones, mostly IT tertiary students
5) What is your future vision for the Cardano Ecosystem?
As a technical person, my passion is to see the ecosystem flooded with useful tools to assist new developers get started easily, quickly and productively.
6 ) What is your personal message to the Cardano community?
Without the Cardano community we would not be where we are. I say thank you very much, I know we are global, diverse, inclusive and above all Cardano cares.
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We’re grateful for the continued contributions of motivated community members across the Cardano ecosystem. Thank you for reading, and we invite you to engage and follow our Ambassadors’ work. 
Until next time, with new people and new Ambassador Stories! 