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Wayne Workman

@wayneworkman

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AI/ML engineer and enterprise cloud architect delivering scalable, compliant AI platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building secure, cost-optimized AI/ML platforms—leading architecture, MLOps, and compliance-focused implementations with measurable business impact.

I am an AI/ML engineer and enterprise cloud architect with 13 years building distributed systems and leading LLM infrastructure trials at a Fortune 500 reinsurance company. I design and ship production AI services on serverless architectures and lead AI platform strategy.

I have trained language models from scratch using PyTorch (183M parameters) and authored 35K lines of custom Python to turn 40MB of training data into a 6GB training corpus. I built synthetic data pipelines generating 1.25M+ training records and deployed distributed GPU workloads across spot instance fleets.

My work emphasizes AI safety, prompt injection detection, LLM evaluation frameworks, and compliance-first engineering (SOC2, HIPAA). I have delivered measurable business impact, including $230K+ annual savings through intelligent automation and eliminating millions of vulnerabilities across enterprise environments.

I lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end product, infrastructure, and AI pipelines for production systems. I seek to bring pragmatic, secure, and cost-optimized AI solutions to organizations that prioritize governance and measurable outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal Cloud Architect

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Reinsurance Group of America

Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 5 months)

Led enterprise cloud transformation across 200+ AWS accounts, architected AI/ML platform foundations and a cost-optimized vLLM inference trial, and delivered $230K+ annual savings via serverless automation while improving compliance and auditability.

AWS Terraform Lambda VLLM Serverless Architecture SQS DynamoDB AI Governance

Cloud Operations Engineer

Reinsurance Group of America

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)

Stabilized large AWS environments through automation, developed reusable Terraform modules, and supported DevOps for ECS/ECR and CI systems to improve reliability and deployment velocity.

AWS Terraform ECS ECR Jenkins CI CD Automation DevOps

Software Integration Engineer

NEC Energy Solutions

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year)

Led API development on a greenfield Python/Flask project with Galera MariaDB, implementing JWT authentication, RBAC, and distributed task processing for time-series analytics.

Python Flask MariaDB JWT RBAC Celery RabbitMQ API Development

IT Engineer — Lead Linux Infrastructure

Lumeris

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year)

Managed 3,000+ servers across VMware and AWS, engineered hardened RHEL images for SOC2 compliance, and led infrastructure-as-code adoption to improve security and provisioning speed.

RHEL VMWare AWS CloudFormation Image Hardening SOC2 IaC Systems Administration

Technology Specialist

Ferguson-Florissant School District

Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)

Oversaw IT for 800 users and 2,000+ devices, built a LAMP-based automation system managing 14,000+ student accounts, and delivered 500+ saved man-hours through custom tooling.

LAMP Automation Account Management Systems Administration Scripting IT Support Process Improvement

Founder / Owner

Nocturne Systems LLC

Built and shipped SpinnyLights, an AI-powered developer recognition SaaS with serverless AWS infrastructure, GitHub OIDC, Stripe payments, Terraform IaC, and full product/infrastructure ownership.

Serverless AWS Terraform GitHub OIDC Stripe SaaS Product Ownership