Summary
Riley Wells is a Forward Deployed Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building web applications, automation systems, and AI-driven integrations, currently applying leading LLMs and agentic orchestration at Elementum AI. He holds a Master's in Information Systems Management from BYU and pairs full-stack development skills (Node, Angular, AWS) with a strong background in process automation and enterprise integrations. Riley has delivered high-impact features that directly drove revenue—helping secure multi-million dollar contracts—and built resilient automation that recovered millions in fees and labor savings in banking operations. He combines rapid prototyping and benchmarking of emerging AI models with production-hardened engineering to turn research into stable, customer-facing solutions. Outside core engineering, Riley has led impact-focused initiatives—designing curricula for an impact investing fund and automating nonprofit program metrics—showing a consistent interest in using technology for social good. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability, often finding elegant automation to replace tedious manual work.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management Information Systems, Master's degree Management Information Systems at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business