Tony Vu

Technical lead & founder · MBA, MAS-CS (MCIT), PSM I

I set technical direction, build the team, and still ship the code: machine-learning pipelines, data platforms, and the apps on top of them.

I co-founded Centro Health Solutions and lead its engineering, from the Python matching model and data platform to the web and mobile apps on top. I also build automation and BI for aerospace manufacturers and have co-authored two peer-reviewed papers on healthcare access.

Why healthMy family came to the U.S. from Vietnam, and helping them find the right doctors at the right time is why I work on referrals.

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Currently

Building Centro's referral-matching model and the data pipeline that feeds it
Consulting on automation and BI for an aerospace manufacturer
Open to technical leadership roles and fractional CTO work

What I do

Technical leadership

Architecture and technical strategy, hiring and mentoring (five direct reports at Centro), and translating between executives and the codebase. I own vendors, payroll and roadmaps as well as pull requests.

Data & machine learning

Python end to end: feature engineering, training, evaluation on held-out data, and the pipelines around them. pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PySpark, Dask and DuckDB on PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

Platforms & apps

Web and mobile with React, Next.js, Astro and React Native. APIs in Node.js, Fastify, Express, Flask and GraphQL. Shipped on AWS with Docker and GitHub Actions.

Automation & BI

Python and SQL automation and KPI reporting for manufacturers, against ERP systems such as Epicor and the SQL Server databases behind them, under NADCAP and ITAR.

Selected work

Things I built, and the teams I built them with

Role, what I did with my own hands, what the team did, and what came of it. Stack listed by layer so you can see where the work actually sits.

Centro Health Solutions platform

Technical lead & founder · 2022 – present · Nashville, TN (remote)

An AI-driven referral platform for communities the current system leaves behind. I set the architecture, wrote the first matching service and API, then hired and led the team that built the rest.

The core is a Python model that matches a person to a specialist who can actually see them, evaluated on temporally held-out data, inside a PostgreSQL-to-React platform on AWS.

Authored the NIH SBIR Phase I proposal, with letters of support from Meharry Medical College, Vanderbilt's Innovation Center and LaunchTN
NSF I-Corps participant (2024); Project Healthcare accelerator, Spring 2026 cohort
Hired and now lead a team of five: two developers and three interns

ML & data: Pythonscikit-learnpandasPostgreSQLRedis
API: Node.jsExpressPython servicesREST
Web: ReactReduxTypeScriptMaterial UI
Infra: AWS ECSAWS RDSCloudFrontDockerGitHub Actions

Enterprise automation and BI for aerospace manufacturing

TIGHITCO Inc · Ladson, SC · 2021 – present

Senior data/business analyst and software developer from 2021 to 2023, technical consultant on retainer since 2024. I guided engineering teams on Python and SQL automation and KPI dashboards across ten manufacturing sites under NADCAP and ITAR, and now serve as the technical authority for the automation systems and financial databases.

Data processing from two months to one hour; 60% labor efficiency gain; contribution ratio doubled from 20% to 40%
Executive kaizens tied to a $4M revenue increase, 26.8% overhead reduction and $2M EBITDA improvement in the first year
Systems now report on $500M+ in transactions across international facilities

Automation: PythonSQLETL pipelines
Systems: Epicor ERPSQL Server
Reporting: KPI dashboardsPower BI (in transition)

More work

2022 – 2024

Cancer survival prediction model

University of Pennsylvania, MCIT

Predicted cancer survival outcomes from geographic and economic data, reaching 91% accuracy. Feature engineering, training and evaluation in Python with pandas and scikit-learn.

2023 – 2024

ERP transition and component tracking

McCay Tool and Engineering · Technical consultant

Power BI rollout and an ERP transition for an aerospace and metal-component manufacturer. Python and SQL component tracking cut manual data processes by 20%.

2021 – 2022

Prototypes and partnership strategy for a medical-AI startup

Quai.MD · MBA consultant

Built software prototypes and ran market research and partnership strategy with Mayo Clinic and the Medical University of South Carolina, which helped secure $1M+ in investment.

Skills

Languages

Python
SQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
C / C++
PHP
VBA

Data & ML

pandas
NumPy
scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PySpark
Dask
DuckDB
Apache Spark
ETL pipelines
Data modeling

Data stores

PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MySQL
MariaDB
MongoDB
Neo4j
Redis
SQLite

Web & mobile

React
Next.js
Astro
React Native
Material UI
Minimal UI
HTML / SCSS

Backend & APIs

Node.js
Fastify
Express
Flask
Laravel
GraphQL
REST

Cloud & infra

AWS ECS
AWS RDS
AWS S3
CloudFront
Docker
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Linux

BI & enterprise

Power BI
Tableau
Domo
SAP
Epicor
Excel

Leadership & process

Scrum (PSM I)
Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Grant writing (NIH SBIR)
Hiring & mentoring

Experience

2022 – present

Technical lead & founder, Centro Health Solutions

Nashville, TN · remote

Architecture and technical vision for an AI/ML health platform; lead a team of five; authored the NIH SBIR Phase I proposal.

2024 – present

Technical consultant, TIGHITCO Inc

Ladson, SC · remote

Enterprise automation and financial databases reporting on $500M+ in transactions; technical authority for software under NADCAP and ITAR.

2023 – 2024

Technical consultant, McCay Tool and Engineering

St. Louis, MO · remote

Power BI and ERP transition plus Python and SQL automation for aerospace and metal-component manufacturing.

2021 – 2023

Senior data/business analyst & software developer, TIGHITCO Inc

Ladson, SC · hybrid

Python and SQL automation and KPI dashboards across ten sites; executive kaizens worth $4M in revenue and $2M in EBITDA in year one.

2021 – 2022

MBA consultant, Quai.MD

Tel Aviv, Israel · remote

Software prototypes, market research and partnership strategy with Mayo Clinic and MUSC; helped secure $1M+ in investment.

2018 – 2021

Technology manager, Vu Construction Air Electric

Lexington, SC

Company-wide infrastructure updates and a two-person team building automation dashboards; 30% less time waste.

Education & credentials

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Applied Science in Computer Science, MAS-CS (MCIT)

School of Engineering and Applied Science · conferred as the Master of Computer and Information Technology, since renamed · focus on AI and machine learning

College of Charleston

Master of Business Administration

School of Business · business analytics

College of Charleston

B.S. Computer Information Systems, minor in Business Administration

School of Sciences and Mathematics

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I · Advanced Google Analytics · Six Sigma Yellow Belt · Certiport Excel · Truist Emerging Leaders · Google Foundations of Project Management

Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery · IEEE Computer Society · Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society

Research

Why people in the Southeast struggle to reach care

Co-author on two peer-reviewed studies of healthcare access, and completed the analyses for the first. The findings shaped the matching factors in Centro's model. ORCID 0000-0003-3428-3857

2026

Social determinants of access to healthcare services by race/ethnicity in a Southeastern metropolitan area

Low JH, Vu T, Kaholokula JK, Lim E, Cobo M, Kirpal B, Chatmon G, Maness SB · Journal of Health Equity, 3(1)

DOI 10.1080/29944694.2026.2635823 PMC13148275

2023

A qualitative analysis of access to healthcare among African American adults in South Carolina

Maness SB, Low JH, Vu T · Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 14

DOI 10.1177/21501319231153593 PMC9943950

Contact

Hiring a technical leader, or building something in health, data or manufacturing? Write to me.

tonyvu.career@gmail.com

LinkedIn GitHub ORCID Resume (PDF)