Final year B.Tech Electrical Engineering · Marwadi University
Excel Edson
Chiba
I see the gap between what exists and what's possible, and I can't stop thinking about closing it.
I am a Zimbabwean engineering student in India, working in the open on the three things I think my country needs in this order: energy, then food, then technology.
Who I am
I would rather be useful than impressive.
Final year electrical engineering at Marwadi University in Rajkot, India. President of the Zimbabwean community here from 2024 to 2026, and leading the wider Southern African community in 2026. Most of what I have learned about engineering, I learned by being responsible for people.
My working belief is simple: find the problem in front of you and be the person who can solve it. That second part is the catch. You cannot help with what you are not ready for, so the preparation never really stops.
So I am doing that preparation in the open. Publicly, imperfectly, and starting from a count of zero.
The plan
Three pillars, in a deliberate order
Energy first, because nothing else runs without it. Food next, because a country deciding whether to eat cannot build anything else. Technology last, because it multiplies whatever is already working, including the problems.
Energy
Power comes first. Nothing else in this plan compounds without it.
Read the thinkingAgriculture
Food abundance is the floor, not the ceiling. Everything else is built from there.
Read the thinkingTechnology
Most of what we need already exists somewhere. The work is implementing it, not reinventing it.
Read the thinkingBuilding in public
Four counters. They only move when the work is done.
100 videos, 50 finished projects, Revit MEP properly learned, and 200 real conversations with people who build things. Publishing the numbers while they are still small is the whole point. You can watch whether I actually do it.
Videos cover Zimbabwe’s future, personal reflection, technical work, and mimicry sessions where I study a great speaker line by line until the delivery stops sounding borrowed.
The videos
2 of 100 published.
Unedited thinking, mostly. Zimbabwe, engineering, and the long practice of learning to say something clearly.
Speaker Mimicry
What You Know Is Not as Important as How You Think
A second pass at the same idea. Facts run out; a way of thinking doesn't. Mimicry is how I practise until the delivery stops being borrowed.
Speaker Mimicry
Think Like a Scientist: Inspired by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Studying how Neil deGrasse Tyson reasons out loud, then rebuilding it in my own voice. The exercise is reasoning from first principles and holding an audience while you do it.
Track record
What I have actually done
Roles I was trusted with and things I finished. Where I can hand you a document or a person to call, I will.
- 2024–2026position
President, Zimbabwean Community
Marwadi University, India
Elected to lead 100+ Zimbabwean students studying 10,000 km from home. Ran events, settled disputes, and represented the community to university administration. The job was mostly unglamorous: making sure people who felt far away felt looked after.
- 2026position
Leader, Southern African Community
Marwadi University, India
Same work, wider room. Coordinating students from across Southern Africa rather than one country, which means more languages, more customs and more careful listening.
- 2024–2025position
International Canteen Committee
Marwadi University
Represented students from more than 52 countries on campus food policy. Turned a long list of dietary and cultural requirements into changes the kitchen could actually run.
- 2023–2024position
Hostel Floor Representative
Marwadi University
Appointed by the warden to carry floor welfare issues to hostel management. First role where I learned that most problems are communication problems wearing a costume.
- 2023achievement
Vibrant Gujarat Summit, Prime Minister's visit
Marwadi University, Gujarat
Took part in Vibrant Gujarat when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the university. Being in that room changed how seriously I took my own plans.
Want to check any of this? Ask me for references and I will connect you with people I worked with.
Get in touch
If you are building something real, I want to know you.
Especially if you work in energy, agriculture or technology in Southern Africa. I am a student, so I am not pretending to be the expert in the room. I am useful, I follow up, and I do the unglamorous parts.