Vu Nguyen

Vu Nguyen

Database Developer + Software Engineer

I build and run in-house applications and databases in government and higher education: schema, services, servers, and the interfaces on top. I have done it since 2005. On my own time I ship React apps and keep a data-science and AWS practice going.

Master of Science in Computer Science from UMass Boston, plus the Microsoft Professional Program Data Science certificate and the AWS Certified Developer Associate certificate. Vietnamese and English.

Works in

  • C#
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Oracle
  • MS SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • ChromaDB / Pinecone
  • React
  • AWS
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Boston, Massachusetts

Projects

Three I can point you at. Older coursework and projects live on my UMass Boston page.

Loan approval models

Loan approval is a probability problem. A bank or credit provider scores an application against the chance it gets repaid, and the factors that set that probability interact in ways no single rule captures.

I built statistical models to predict the outcome for individual applications, and entered them against the field. This was the capstone for the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science.

  • R
  • Statistical modelling
  • Predictive analytics
  • Azure ML
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Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science on edX

GitHub Profile Finder

A React app that looks up GitHub accounts through the GitHub API and lays out what comes back: search, fetch, render the profile detail.

  • React
  • GitHub API
  • Vercel
Open the app
GitHub Profile Finder showing a searched profile

Movie Finder

A React app for searching films and pulling detail from the TMDB API. I built it in Codux, a visual IDE for React where edits on the canvas and edits in the code stay in sync both directions.

  • React
  • TMDB API
  • Codux
  • Vercel
Open the app
Movie Finder showing search results from TMDB

The line

Experience and education, one corridor

Two tracks, one corridor, 1994 to now. Orange stations are jobs, green are degrees and certificates. The lines meet in 2005, where the degree changed discipline and the software career starts. Full history on LinkedIn and my UMass Boston page.

  1. 1994

    Bachelor of Science

    Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology — Vietnam

    Major in Civil Engineering Technology.

  2. 1999

    Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude

    Wentworth Institute of Technology — Boston, MA

    Major in Civil Engineering Technology.

  3. 2005

    Master of Science

    University of Massachusetts — Boston, MA

    Major in Computer Science. The switch from civil engineering to software.

  4. 2005

    Interchange · civil engineering to software

  5. Dec 2005 – present

    Sr. Programmer / Analyst

    Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

    In-house development and application support.

    • Built and deployed RAG systems using LangChain, ChromaDB, and OpenAI APIs for enterprise clients.
    • Architected multi-agent workflows using Claude and GPT-5 for automated document processing.
    • Design, build and deploy software across web services, Java and J2EE, SOA and open-source stacks: SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL Server, Oracle, JDBC, ODBC, XML and XML Schema, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Apache technologies, Systinet WASP, Tomcat, .NET, HTML and JavaScript, on every version of Windows.
    • Administer the agency's RDBMS and SQL Server instances: design, maintenance and repair.
    • Move the legacy servers onto those platforms.
    • Write and test the disaster-recovery plan for every server the agency runs.
    • Research, acquire and maintain the tooling for project management, configuration management, modelling, testing and application development.
    • Act as liaison to operations and support staff: find the problem areas, then fix them.

    Current post

  6. Oct 2011 – Jun 2012

    Application Developer

    Bunker Hill Community College

    In-house development and application support.

    • Run the college SharePoint portal as Site Collection Administrator.
    • Integrate web software and services with Datatel Colleague and the other systems College Technology Services supported.
    • Maintain existing web applications for integration, data integrity, standards compliance, security and relevance.
    • Sit in the planning and requirements meetings so what got built met the requirements.
    • Build and integrate web applications to standard, in the right technology for the job.
    • Extend SharePoint applications onto new technology.
    • Write and maintain end-user and technical documentation.
    • Write and maintain PowerShell to manage the SharePoint servers.
  7. Jun 2012 – Jun 2014

    Sr. Programmer / Analyst

    Wentworth Institute of Technology

    In-house development and application support.

    • Model, test and implement the SunGard Banner 8.x to 9 upgrade on Project Horizon, under Groovy and Grails.
    • Build and integrate web applications to standard in Spring, Groovy and Grails, ZK and Java.
    • Research, acquire and maintain the tooling for project management, configuration management, modelling, testing and application development.
    • Set the strategy and coding approach for mobile apps on the SunGard Mobile Connect server APIs, tuned for speed.
    • Administer SQL Server: design, maintenance and repair.
    • Act as liaison to operations and support staff: find the problem areas, then fix them.
  8. Certificates

    edX, online learning

    Online coursework

    Microsoft Professional Program Data Science Certificate (PDF)
    AWS Certified Developer Associate Verify badge
    Microsoft SQL Database Development No public artifact
    MongoDB for Java Developer No public artifact

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