Abner earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in 2019. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Science majoring in Geotechnical Engineering with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. Before joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2022 as a junior lecturer for Geotechnical Engineering, he worked as a lecturer at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Namibia and also at Roads Authority, Namibia.