Phuong Anh Dao
Program director
Data analytics pathways
About
Blaze Volt collective
Blaze Volt began as a District 11 studio pairing data analytics training tracks with mentor-reviewed projects. We serve Vietnam-based learners, university students, career switchers, and HR buyers who need transparent syllabi instead of vague “digital transformation” decks.
We keep cohort sizes modest so teaching assistants can read your artifacts—not just autograde them. Corporate training retains the same mentors you meet in public cohorts whenever possible.
Operating principles
- Publish limitations beside every promise.
- Prefer bilingual office hours over silent forums.
- Document tooling versions like a release notes habit.
- Treat security and data ethics as shared literacy.
Timeline
- 2018 — Pilot analytics nights in HCMC coworking labs
- 2021 — Formalized mentor review rubrics + corporate PO workflows
- 2024 — Expanded automation + cloud literacy electives alongside core data tracks
Team grid
20 people across program direction, instruction, curriculum design, career coaching, and learner success.
Hoang Nam Bui
Program director
Corporate training
Lan Phuong Vo
Lead instructor
SQL + warehouses
Duy Khanh Le
Lead instructor
Python pipelines
Thao My Dang
Lead instructor
Dashboard storytelling
Minh Tri Huynh
Lead instructor
Cloud foundations
Anh Thu Nguyen
Lead instructor
Security literacy
Hai Nam Tran
Lead instructor
React tooling
Quang Vinh Pham
Teaching assistant
Automation labs
Cam Tu Ho
Teaching assistant
Research methods
Gia Bao Do
Teaching assistant
MLOps survey courses
Kiet Truong
Teaching assistant
API workshops
Bich Ngoc Mai
Curriculum designer
Streaming literacy
Thanh Ha Ly
Curriculum designer
Low-code automation
Hong Nhung Ta
Curriculum designer
Assessment rubrics
Vu Minh Chau
Career coach
Portfolio reviews
Son Trieu Vo
Career coach
Interview prep
Yen Nhi Phan
Learner success manager
Cohort communications
Duc Manh Le
Learner success manager
Accessibility accommodations
Kim Thoa Huynh
Operations lead
Campus logistics
Voice samples
The SQL for Analytics Teams ticket workflow—especially the join fan-out checklist—now lives in our Confluence space. Mentors answered schema questions without hand-waving.
Python Pipelines cohort was blunt about what notebooks cannot do in prod. I appreciated that.
Storytelling with Dashboards forced us to retire two vanity charts. Critique rubric is ruthless in a good way.
Cloud Data Foundations gave me the IAM vocabulary to file sane access requests. Sandbox labs felt small but honest.
> Security Monitoring Basics // escalation tree alone saved our Friday incident call.
React Dashboards track: typed fetch guards caught a schema drift before demo day.
Streaming Concepts was conceptual, which I needed. I stopped pretending to understand consumer lag in standups.
Visual Workflow Automation Lab logs are ugly but real. Mentor helped without rewriting my graph.