John Wofford
Principal Technical Product Manager, US Federal HPC & Advanced Computing at Research Computing Services LLC
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Wofford is a Principal Technical Product Manager focused on US Federal HPC and Advanced Computing at AWS, bringing a decade of hands-on experience designing, operating, and productizing high-performance computing systems. He blends deep technical roots—from HPC systems administration and research at Los Alamos to solutions architecture at AWS—with entrepreneurial experience running Research Computing Services. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he has led HPC integrations for federal customers while translating complex scientific workflows into scalable cloud services. Based in Santa Fe, his academic background in physics and philosophical foundations of physics informs a rigorous, systems-level approach to problem solving that balances theoretical insight with operational reliability. An @hpc nerd on GitHub, he pairs domain expertise with practical engineering and a track record of shepherding HPC capabilities into production.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Liberal Arts, Bachelor's degree Liberal Arts at St. John's CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD Physics at Penn State UniversityMaster's degree Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Master's degree Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University
French, Greek, Latin
Github Skills (53)
busybox10
filesystem10
initramfs10
linux10
provisioning10
kraken10
kernel10
automation10
system10
boot10
embedded10
userland10
mount9
distributed-systems9
hpc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kraken-hpc/imageapi
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
The ImageAPI describes a restful (Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0) interface for attaching, mounting, and launching system image containers. It also includes an image loading implementation.
Contributions:8 releases, 55 PRs, 70 pushes in 6 months
image-loadingopenapirestfulswagger
hpc/nrd
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Neighborless Route Detection (NRD) is a utility that dynamically manages ECMP/MultiPath routes by listening for OSPF Hello packets.
Contributions:60 commits in 11 months
multipathospf
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