Tesfagabir Meharizghi

About Tesfagabir Meharizghi

I spent 6+ years at AWS — first at the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, then at the Generative AI Innovation Center — leading dozens of strategic AI engagements for companies like Merck, Tyson Foods, Light & Wonder, and the NFL across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, transportation, sports & media, and more.One pattern kept repeating: enterprises don\'t struggle to start AI projects. They struggle to finish them.I spent my career closing that gap — scoping business cases, architecting complex systems, and deploying solutions that had to survive real traffic, real compliance, and real user expectations. Those engagements at AWS led to 5 patent filings (1 granted), an AWS re:Invent stage, and dozens of production launches.That end-to-end experience — science, engineering, and business — is why I started Avola Labs.We help enterprises architect, build, and ship production-grade agentic AI systems on AWS. We identify where AI creates real business value. And we enable your team to own what we build — so they ship independently after we leave.Agentic AI + AWS. Specific by design. Book a free 30-min discovery call: cal.com/avola-labs/intro-call avolalabs.ai

Experience

1. Founder & Principal

   Avola Labs

   Mar 2026 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Avola Labs helps enterprises architect, build, and ship agentic AI systems on AWS — from proof of concept to production.We work three ways: Build — Production-ready agentic AI: RAG, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails, human-in-the-loop Discover — AI strategy and architecture assessments rooted in what actually ships Transform — Hands-on workshops and enablement so your team ships independentlyFocused on Agentic AI + AWS.→ avolalabs.ai

Education

• Florida International University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)(Coursework Completed), Computer Science

  2016 — 2016

• University of Asmara

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  2000 — 2004

• Masdar Institute for Science and Technology

  Master’s Degree, Computing and Information Science

  2013 — 2015

Skills

• Javascript
• C
• Programming
• Java
• Json
• Css
• Databases
• Matlab
• Git
• Html
• Computer Science
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Software Development
• Python
• Software Design
• Big Data
• Sql
• Linux
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Eclipse
• Web Services
• Data Mining
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Git/Github
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Web Development
• C++
• Machine Learning