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This article is about a person whose name ends in a patronymic rather than a family name. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Worku, and not as Mekonnen.

Worku Mekonnen Tessema (ወርቁ መኮንን ተሰማ)

Worku Mekonnen Tessema (Amharic: ወርቁ መኮንን) is an Ethiopian technologist, and the current PhD student of Near East University (Turkey). Worku was born in South Gondar province, Kimer Dingay village. He is a Christian. Worku was sent to elementary & secondary school in Kimer Dingay, a town located in Farta Woreda previously and now Guna-Begemdir Woreda in South Gondar Zone, off the main road from Bahir Dar to Woldeya. Later he joined the Addis Ababa University and studied Computer Science in the Arat Kilo campus and received his BSc in 2005.

After graduation, he returned to his native region in Bahir Dar to begin his career as an Instructor.He taught computer science in Blue Nile college, for one year, before he was joined to Amhara mass media agency in the same city.It was in Bahir Dar, that Worku met Meaza Leul, an accountant of one of a PLC at that time, and his future wife and mother of his two children. Worku later joined again Addis Ababa university in 2012, to receive his MSc in computer science in 2014. He has worked in several federal governments during his MSc studies, such as House of People Representatives, Document Authentication & registration office, and Ministry of education in different positions. Worku was joined Debre Tabor University, which is found around his birth place, as an instructor in computer science department, and he was working also as a coordinator of Data Mgmt & Utilization center. Worku is now working his PhD program in Near East University, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC), since October 2017.