About
Hi, I'm Tunga Tessema.
I've spent my career turning messy, real-world processes into software that runs in production. Today I'm Head of Product at a US multi-specialty, multi-location healthcare company, where I lead all technology projects and manage two products: a QME platform and a hybrid EHR that supports telehealth, in-house and in-person visits, and every clinical workflow from credentialing to billing. We delivered the EHR in four months and are now taking its integrations live.
Before that, I led the deployment of an AI assistant that processes handwritten consent forms at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, built data warehouses and pipelines processing 40+ million transactions, and shipped NLP models for the African Development Bank. I started out as a founder, building and launching web and mobile products, and I hold an MS in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon.
I lead every engagement personally and bring in engineers from our team for integrations, data and front-end work as the project needs. You get one accountable lead with the capacity of a team.
4 months
Full clinical EHR, from kickoff to delivery
40M+
Transactions processed by pipelines I built
ICDAR 2026
Published research in OCR and document AI
3 languages
English, French and Amharic
Head of Product, US multi-specialty healthcare company
Present
Research Associate, Upanzi Network, Carnegie Mellon University Africa
2024–2026
Analytics Engineer, OX Delivers
2025–2026
Big Data Engineer, ArifPay
2024
Data Scientist, African Development Bank
2023
AI & Strategy Consultant, Bosch (grow platform) and Innovation Works
2024
Founder & Head of Engineering, Highlight Software Design
2021–2022
MS in Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University · BSc in Software Engineering, Addis Ababa University
Education
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