Kira Bui

Data leader, 8+ years. I turn data from 10 systems into the numbers a company runs on — and lead the 5-person Data & AI team behind them.

Data & AI Tech Lead at NORTHGATE DIGITAL SOLUTIONS (2024-04 – Present)

• Lead the 5-person Data & AI team — hire, coach, review; report to the CTO and clients
• DIGITAL HEALTH · YOGA & WELLNESS APP
• One agreed KPI set for $9.8M+ yearly bookings — defined the metrics and built the gold layer across 4 payment channels, matched with Finance
• Re-platformed the data stack — Redshift → ClickHouse for faster, cheaper queries (2.4× data, flat cost); Glue → Airflow for scheduled, alerting pipelines
• Visibility for every business owner — pipelines, alerts and Claude-built dashboards let teams explore insights themselves; leaders open KPIs 27 of 30 days
• The right data, collected and trusted — 10 sources, 9M+ events a month, automated checks; churn scores flag 56% of cancellations early
• SUPPLY CHAIN · RETAIL & WHOLESALE
• 14,000 tables, 700 schemas off legacy SSMS — bronze layer live on Fabric
• Medallion foundation across 5 supply chain domains — silver and gold layers for demand, forecast, supply, inventory and manufacturing
• One gold layer for 86 reports and tools — semantic models, Power BI, APIs for web apps and governed self-service analytics for 4 planning teams

Senior Data & AI Engineer – Team Lead at HALDEN SYSTEMS GROUP (2021-12 – 2024-04)

• +12% revenue with margin held — AI pricing engine for 40K+ products
• 38% fewer stockouts, 22% less excess stock — forecasts for 150K products
• 70% less manual work — an AI workspace over 50K+ documents, with AI agents running 200+ supply chain tasks a day

ML Engineer at VERDANT SOFTWORKS (2019-05 – 2021-12)

• Read 1M+ invoices a month automatically — ML invoice processing with OCR and validation; promoted from Junior in 18 months
• 50% less reporting effort for 30+ water utilities — a benchmarking platform with automated data loading and dashboards

Information Technology – University of Economics HCMC