John Wofford
Principal Technical Product Manager, US Federal HPC & Advanced Computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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 (72)
linux-distribution10
kraken10
system10
boot10
embedded10
linux10
provisioning10
golang10
userland10
busybox10
kernel10
initramfs10
automation9
aws-batch9
scalable8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kraken-hpc/kraken
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Kraken is a distributed state engine framework for scalable automation and orchestration tools.
Contributions:7 releases, 171 commits, 310 PRs in 2 years 8 months
scalableorchestrationframework-engineautomationkraken
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
containersrestfulimageapiimage-loadingopenapi3
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