Habtamu Yeshaw
EIT
Staff Geotechnical Engineer
Driven to provide project-specific geotechnical analysis and practical recommendations.
Hired
- 2025
Location
- Spokane, WA
Practices
Habtamu is a staff geotechnical engineer in our Spokane office. He conducts geotechnical field investigations and testing, and monitoring of foundations and earthwork, including pile driving measurements, tieback wall pull-out, and rock bolt performance tests. Habtamu also performs analyses such as slope stability, settlement, bearing capacity, liquefaction, seismic evaluation, and deep foundation assessments, and prepares technical reports that inform safe and resilient design.
Habtamu values the critical role of understanding soil and rock properties, noting that his ’ah-ha’ moment was, “if the ground does not cooperate, nothing else really will.”
Before joining GeoEngineers, he worked as a Geotechnical Engineer at the North Dakota Department of Transportation, developing soil survey and investigation plans, and evaluating foundations, slopes, bridge piles, drilled shafts, high-mast lights, mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls, reinforced soil slopes (RSS) and roadway embankments. He also held positions in Ethiopia as a university lecturer, project engineer, and municipal design and contract administration officer.
Committed to ongoing professional growth, Habtamu continues to expand his expertise in geotechnical and geo-structural engineering. Outside of work, he follows soccer, especially the English Premier League (he occasionally plays the sport himself), enjoys movies, and goes to the gym, often joking that his workouts are as thrilling as a last-minute EPL goal.
