Data scientist, researcher, engineering leader, and founder. I build products, teams, and learning environments where enrollment is easy, brilliance is recognized, and the systems keep working after I leave the room.
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An EdD plus an MS in Data Science in progress at Vanderbilt, the REMLE framework from peer-reviewed doctoral work, and active research on neurodivergent workforce trajectories. I read the literature, run the analysis, and translate it into something a team can use on Monday.
Software engineering since 2002; engineering leadership since 2019. Selected client roster spans ed-tech, healthcare, and marketing-platform companies, plus finance, nonprofit, and data clients. I build systems that keep running after I leave.
Keynote speaker, podcast host, live-stream host, and TEDx producer with millions of views on talks I curated. Founder of a community of 400+ neurodivergent technologists. Belonging is the infrastructure I build, not just the thing I talk about.
Twenty-eight years writing code. Hundreds of technologists taught.
Dr. Teresa "Dr. Vás" Vásquez has spent twenty-eight years writing code and taught hundreds of technologists to write it too. She's a Software Engineer of the Year, a doctorate holder, and a repeat hackathon and pitch-competition winner — and a Black, neurodivergent woman who talks straight about the climb and joyfully about the gift.
She designs learning spaces on one belief: design for how neurodistinct people think, and every mind in the room does better. Her research covers neurodistinction, the future of work, and environment.
Mother of eight — four with two legs, four with four. A cook. A livestreamer. A woman who wears every color at once, on purpose. Her closing line, every time: when you love yourself first, loving everybody else gets easy.
Global-winning application supporting Black women's healing from workplace trauma. Built in 48 hours, won the international category, and continues to inform conversations about workplace mental health design.
First-place hackathon solution enabling nonprofits to manage teacher supply inventory and stakeholder communications — built in partnership with PENCIL and shipped as a working concept.
Three years of wins at the regional civic-tech hackathon — solutions for nonprofits, schools, and community-serving organizations across Middle Tennessee.
Now on the other side of the table — sponsoring the annual hackathon that brings programmers, designers, and innovators together to imagine the future of Bowling Green and the Commonwealth. Extending neuroinclusive opportunity across state lines.
Does a song you can dance to get more streams? I tested it on Spotify's most-streamed songs of 2023 and a catalog of 113,999 tracks, and wrote it up as an 80s hip-hop and R&B mixtape. Then I turned it into a five-round game show you can play.
Conducted an internal audit of the engineering and infrastructure footprint for a children's movement and learning platform used in millions of classrooms. Simplified systems, redesigned the data architecture, and scaled what stayed — saving the company over $500,000 per year in operational cost.
Built a new UI, full design library, and CI/CD pipeline for a client product — shipped in six weeks, under budget. End-to-end: design system, component library, deployment automation, and the production rollout.
The adaptive life-OS for neurodivergent builders. Spoon-theory grounded, data-informed, and gamified — Labs, Playgrounds, Cheat Sheets, Documentation, and Projects layered into one operating system for daily life and growth. Co-Founder & CDO.
Visit reppedlabs.org →A learning model and organizational change tool from my doctoral research — Reframing, Evidence, Momentum, Legacy, Elevation. The spine underneath every product, program, and stage I lead.
Global-winning application supporting Black women's healing from workplace trauma. Girls in Tech & Nike Mental Health Hackathon — international winner.
First-place hackathon solution enabling nonprofits to manage teacher supply inventory and stakeholder communications. Built with PENCIL, Nashville's classroom resource nonprofit.
Selected fellow on the 18-month Graduate Certificate track in Neurodiversity Inspired Science & Engineering — deliberately chosen to build relationship capital and fully experience Vanderbilt while concurrently pursuing an MS in Data Science.
Selected to advance research-to-practice work on neurodivergent workforce development and the environmental conditions that make agency and self-advocacy possible.
Over $300,000 in awarded funding to advance neurodivergent workforce development programming — translating the REMLE framework into accessible, scalable adult learning outcomes across Tennessee.
Awarded recipient of the Comcast RISE Grant — recognizing small businesses making an impact in their communities and providing resources to fuel continued growth.
Summer 2026 Micro Grant Recipient — awarded through the Sullivan Family Ideator Cohort, a virtual entrepreneurship program at Vanderbilt's The Wond'ry culminating in a Pitch Day before a panel of business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Pitch for Good · Black Founders Edition Winner (2020) — early validation for the founder work that became Repped in Tech® and Repped Labs. Impact Grant Finalist (2025) — selected from a competitive cohort of mission-driven Nashville founders.
Produced and curated TEDx talks that have gone on to reach millions of views — coaching speakers, shaping narrative arcs, and building the production pipeline that turned local ideas into global ones.
Strategic guidance on technology, workforce development, and neurodiversity in higher education. Contributing to policy and research initiatives improving postsecondary experiences for autistic learners.
Strengthening nonprofit partnerships, fundraising, and member engagement through neuroinclusive program design and outreach.
Supporting educational equity and career pathways for neurodiverse and underserved youth through partnerships with schools and community organizations.
Active member of the Parent-Teacher-Student Organization, supporting student programming, community engagement, and family-school partnerships at an early college high school where students earn dual high school and postsecondary credit.
Reserve Friday and weekend availability for pro-bono speaking, panels, and community appearances — bringing neuroinclusive perspectives into rooms where access matters more than fees.