Tewodros Hailegeberel

I help institutions build technology they can own, run, and grow themselves.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Welcome

I created this space to give you a better idea of who I am, my experiences, my skills, and a few selected pieces of work for your reference. A résumé can only list job descriptions, but I hope this site gives you a clear picture of how I think and operate on the ground.

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USAID
Digital Health Systems
Enterprise GIS
Public-Sector Advisory
Ethiopia & East Africa

I am a digital transformation, digital health, and geospatial technology leader with more than 20 years of experience working with governments, global donors, technology entrepreneurs, and communities across Africa and the United States.

My focus is straightforward: helping organizations turn complex technology investments into practical, scalable systems that people can use, manage, and sustain.

Selected Work

The work below shows the range of my practice: national digital transformation, utility modernization, and building a technology company around a practical urban problem.

Strengthening Ethiopia’s National Digital Health Information Systems & Architecture

Challenge / Achievement

As Senior Digital Health Advisor at USAID/Ethiopia, I served as the senior adviser and senior digital health lead for USAID’s approximately $63 million Digital Health Activity, one of the country’s major donor-supported investments in national digital-health systems. My responsibility was considerably broader than providing technical advice on individual software platforms.

Building the Geospatial Foundation for a Modern Electric Utility

Challenge / Achievement

I supported the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) company to modernize their data management for their network infrastructure. They had a major data fragmentation as well as data management challenges. For a large electric utility like EEU, GIS becomes valuable when it moves beyond mapping and becomes part of the operational information infrastructure connecting assets, customers, networks, field teams, enterprise systems, and executive decision-making.

Built the First Ethiopian Digital Web Map — eAdrasha

Challenge / Achievement

Before my work became centered on national digital transformation, I founded eAdrasha to address the practical challenge of finding businesses, navigating informal addressing systems, and using reliable location information across Addis Ababa.

Where the Work Has Been.

United StatesMaryland, Washington DC, and Virginia: county government, a water utility, the Census Bureau, and USAID headquarters.
HaitiGeospatial and information management on USAID programmes.
EthiopiaAddis Ababa: USAID digital health, utility modernization, and the company I founded.
BurundiMinistry of Health interoperability and national health information systems.
MalawiGeospatial support to FHI 360 health programming.

USAID

Advising on digital health, data, GIS, and national technology programs.

Adam Smith International

Helping modernize enterprise GIS and utility information systems.

Palladium / Data.FI

Supporting digital-health data, interoperability, and spatial analytics.

U.S. Census Bureau

Developing geospatial analysis and decision-support products for public-sector work.

DC Water

Supporting infrastructure data, field workflows, and utility operations.

Prince George's County Government

Working on countywide GIS, data governance, emergency response, and public applications.

What I Do

The Kinds of Challenges I Help Tackle.

I’m brought in when a digital project gets stuck between big strategic goals and the practical realities of making it work.

Usually, the hard part isn’t picking the software. It’s connecting the human pieces: helping leaders figure out what actually needs to be built, how it will work on the ground, what it will take to roll out, and how the local team will keep it running after the experts leave.

Where I usually lend a hand:

Turning Big Ideas into Realistic Plans

I help teams cut through the noise and figure out what to digitize now, what can wait, and what changes staff need to make so the tech doesn’t collect dust.

Connecting Systems That Don’t Talk to Each Other

Utilities and agencies usually have the data already; it is just trapped in separate systems. I help connect asset records, customer information, ERP, SCADA, and field tools so the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.

Making Messy Data Clear and Useful

Most leaders don’t need more reports. They need quick answers to key management questions. I help clean up fragmented data and build simple dashboards that help people make practical decisions.

Keeping High-Stakes Projects on Track

I step in to support teams managing big tech investments and vendor contracts. I review budgets, sharpen requirements, catch risks early, and translate complex technical headaches into clear choices for leadership.

Building Systems That Survive Long-Term

A new system rarely fails because the software breaks; it fails because nobody was trained or supported to run it. I help set up clear roles, daily routines, and local training so the system belongs to the institution, not outside consultants.

Getting Different Groups Talking

When a project involves government officials, donors, tech vendors, and field workers, everyone speaks a different language. I help bridge those gaps so everyone can agree on what to do next.

Geospatial Practice

What I Build with Spatial Data.

Two decades of geospatial work, from writing the automation scripts myself to advising utilities and ministries on the platforms their operations run on.

Enterprise GIS

Deploying and running geospatial platforms as production infrastructure: server, portal, and enterprise geodatabases that field crews and control rooms depend on daily.

DC Water and Sewer Authority; Prince George’s County; Ethiopian Electric Utility

WebGIS & Location Services

Building browser-based mapping products and the addressing data underneath them, including in places where no reliable base data existed to begin with.

eAdrasha: 50,000 locations mapped; open Addis Ababa geodata

GIS Automation

Replacing repetitive analytical and data-management work with Python, SQL, and ETL pipelines, so teams spend their time on judgment instead of file handling.

PEPFAR analytics across eight USAID Missions; ArcPy utility library

Remote Sensing & Earth Observation

Using satellite imagery and Google Earth Engine to monitor conditions that are impractical to observe continuously from the ground.

Gefersa Reservoir water-quality monitoring, Addis Ababa

Tools I Work In

Desktop & Enterprise GIS

QGIS
ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Server
Portal for ArcGIS
Enterprise Geodatabase

Programming & Automation

Python
ArcPy
SQL
ETL pipelines
Google Apps Script

Spatial Data & Web

PostGIS
GeoJSON
OpenStreetMap
WebGIS
Spatial dashboards

Earth Observation

Google Earth Engine
Satellite imagery analysis

Health & M&E Systems

DHIS2
KoboToolbox
OpenHIM
Tableau

Point of View

Technology Is Only Useful When Institutions Can Own and Operate It.

My perspective comes from working on both sides of the problem. I can sit with senior leaders discussing policy, governance, financing, ownership, and implementation risk, then work with technical teams on architecture, APIs, GIS, interoperability, databases, and analytical workflows.

That combination helps turn ambitious transformation agendas into systems that people can use, govern, and sustain.

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I work with governments, development organizations, technology companies, investors, and institutions tackling complex digital, data, geospatial, and public-sector modernization challenges.

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