Summary
Vinny Palumbo is a tech founder and self-taught programmer with a decade of experience building AI-driven products and no-code solutions from Montreal. He founded Tutor Lily, an AI-powered language tutoring app that has reached 125,000 learners and corrected over 14 million grammar errors since its 2023 launch, and was featured on BBC News and included in Founder Institute’s Select Portfolio. Earlier work includes AI research at D-BOX in partnership with MILA and predictive analytics and deep learning applications in R&D at The Co-operators, where he outperformed peers with advanced degrees. Vinny pairs a strong mathematics and statistics foundation with certificates from DeepLearning.AI and Stanford, and a practical knack for shipping market-ready MVPs via NoCodeClones. He balances product intuition and technical depth, turning research ideas into consumer-facing mobile experiences. An avid lifelong learner, he often bridges academic ML techniques with pragmatic app development to make complex AI accessible.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certification Computer Vision, Certification Computer Vision at Udacity
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Founder Institute
International Baccalaureate Diploma Economics, International Baccalaureate Diploma Economics at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Statistics at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
Certification Deep Learning, Certification Deep Learning at DeepLearning.AI
Certification Machine Learning, Certification Machine Learning at Stanford University
English, French, Italian, Latin