Vyente Ruffin

Vyente Ruffin

MICROSOFT CONSULTANT
& ENGINEERING LEADER

Better systems.Smarter work.Real impact.

I help businesses get more from Microsoft through dependable cloud infrastructure, practical AI, and automation that gives people their time back.

A few outcomes.
A lot less busywork.
45%

IT budget savedFDH Aerospace

67%

Fewer DevOps ticketsocV!BE

70%

Fewer release errorsocV!BE

01 / WHERE I CAN HELP

Make the technology
work for the business.

I connect the business need to the systems, workflows, and people that make it happen. Microsoft is at the center.

Microsoft & cloud

Build reliable foundations. Modernize infrastructure, bring environments under control, and make deployments repeatable.

Azure · Microsoft 365 · Entra ID · Terraform

AI that earns its place

Connect AI to useful business tasks—from finding answers in documents to validating new ways of working.

Microsoft Foundry · Copilot · RAG · MCP

Automation that adds up

Reduce repetitive effort and handoffs. Connect business workflows and automate the operations underneath them.

Power Platform · Ansible · Python · CI/CD

02 / SELECTED WORK

Practical problems.
Measurable progress.

A selection of projects and outcomes from my professional experience. Open a project for the approach and context.

45%annual IT budget saved

FDH AEROSPACE

Bring 500+ VMs under one roof.

Centralized Azure Arc management and automated patching helped simplify operations and reduce the annual IT budget.

AZURE ARC / TERRAFORM / AUTOMATION

The approach

Centralize virtual-machine management with Azure Arc and automate patching. Create Terraform and Bicep blueprints for repeatable VM, AKS, and App Service deployments.

The outcome

More than 500 VMs centrally managed. A reported 45% annual IT budget reduction. Separate infrastructure blueprints enabled secure environments to launch in minutes instead of days.

Source: Résumé v6, page 1. Outcomes are reported in Vyente’s résumé.

Q → Aanswers grounded in filings

FDH AEROSPACE

Turn financial filings into answers.

An AI document analysis platform that lets people ask natural-language questions about SEC filings and follow the citations.

AZURE OPENAI / RAG / API INTEGRATION

The approach

Design and deliver a platform connecting Azure OpenAI with API integrations and retrieval-augmented generation over 10-K filing data.

The outcome

Natural-language access to financial filings with grounded, citation-based responses. A concrete example of connecting AI to a useful business task.

Source: Résumé v6, page 1. Outcomes are reported in Vyente’s résumé.

67%fewer DevOps tickets

OCV!BE

Give the team the tools to move.

Automation enabled Tier-1 support to resolve issues without escalation. Standardized delivery also reduced release errors.

ANSIBLE / AZURE DEVOPS / GITHUB ACTIONS

The approach

Build Ansible Automation Platform containers that give Tier-1 support self-service capabilities. Standardize CI/CD pipelines across four environments.

The outcome

A 67% reduction in DevOps ticket volume. The standardized CI/CD pipelines reduced release errors by 70%, while Azure deployment automation shortened builds from days to hours.

Source: Résumé v6, page 2. Outcomes are reported in Vyente’s résumé.

MICROSOFT EXPERTISE

Experience, backed by credentials.

AI-102

Azure AI Engineer

GH-300

GitHub Copilot

AB-730

AI Business Professional

AZ-900

Azure Fundamentals

Credentials listed in my résumé. Explore the projects above to see that knowledge in practice.

03 / THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE WORK

An operator’s perspective.
A builder’s mindset.

My background connects hands-on infrastructure, technical leadership, and customer AI solutions. That breadth helps me understand what it takes to make change work.

Explore my GitHub

Microsoft

Nov 2025 – Present

Senior AI & Cloud Automation

At Microsoft, Vyente partners with customers to define automation and AI use cases, then designs and delivers proofs of concept using Azure, Microsoft AI Foundry, Fabric, Work IQ, and Copilot to validate business value. He architects and implements AI solutions across infrastructure and applications, including CI/CD, containerized workloads, and secure enterprise Azure environments. He translates business requirements into architectures and works with sales engineers, solution engineers, and data teams to support customer adoption.

FDH Aerospace

Aug 2024 – Nov 2025

Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer

At FDH Aerospace, Vyente created Terraform and Bicep infrastructure blueprints for virtual machines, AKS, and App Service, enabling secure environments to launch in minutes instead of days. He centralized management of more than 500 VMs using Azure Arc and automated patching, saving 45% of the annual IT budget. He automated onboarding, offboarding, and patching with Azure Automation, Ansible, and Terraform, boosting productivity by 24%.

At FDH Aerospace, Vyente designed and delivered an AI-powered SEC filing analysis platform using Azure OpenAI and API integrations. The platform enabled natural-language questions about 10-K filings, with grounded, citation-based responses using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The résumé does not report a numerical time-saving or accuracy metric for this project.

ocV!BE

Dec 2022 – Aug 2024

Director of Cloud, Infrastructure and DevOps

As Director of Cloud, Infrastructure and DevOps at ocV!BE, Vyente automated Azure deployments with Terraform and GitHub Actions, cutting build time from days to hours. He brought more than 1,000 VMware VMs into Azure Arc for centralized patching. His standardized CI/CD pipelines across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production reduced release errors by 70%. Automation of patching, tagging, and DevOps workflows reduced the IT budget by 31%. He built Ansible Automation Platform containers that enabled Tier-1 support to resolve issues without escalation, cutting DevOps ticket volume by 67%. He also implemented Conditional Access and MFA for more than 2,000 user accounts, and modernized legacy applications into ACS and AKS, reducing infrastructure costs by 30%.

ENTISYS360

Jan 2019 – Dec 2022

Senior Cloud Architect · DevOps · SRE

At ENTISYS360, a managed service and cloud provider, Vyente automated Citrix deployments with Ansible, reducing setup from weeks to days for enterprise clients. He built Azure disaster recovery with Terraform, reducing recovery time from 48 hours to under 2 hours. He automated patching for 800 Azure and VMware VMs and built repeatable Terraform environments. He deployed AWS Workspaces for 500 remote staff, integrated with Intune and AWS Systems Manager. His automated PowerShell reporting improved cloud cost visibility and reduced overruns by 15%.

Red Interactive Agency

Sep 2018 – Aug 2019

Director of Information Technology

At Red Interactive Agency, Vyente led a hybrid VMware and AWS environment with a $500,000 budget and managed a six-person IT team. He delivered automation with Terraform and Azure DevOps and modernized the backup strategy, saving $55,000 annually.

Earlier experience

2015 – 2018

Key Information Systems · SSI

Earlier roles included DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect at Key Information Systems, and IT Infrastructure Manager and DevOps Engineer at SSI. Work included a VM self-service portal, automated disaster-recovery onboarding, VMware-to-AWS migration, management of more than 1,500 servers, and PowerShell and Ansible automation.

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