Bradley Jolicoeur

Mt Laurel, NJ | brad@jolicoeurs.net | LinkedIn | bradjolicoeur.com | GitHub

Professional Summary

Highly accomplished IT leader and architect with a proven 15+ year track record, adept at both diving into code with engineers and translating technical vision to stakeholders. Experienced in designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems, and leading software development in complex, high-volume digital environments. Expert in Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and architectural transformation, with a strong focus on improving scalability, maintainability, and quality.

Core Competencies

  • Leadership & Strategy: Organizational Transformation, Technology Strategy, Innovation, AI/ML, LLM, Copilot
  • Architecture & Design: Microservices, SOA, Domain-Driven Design, Internal Development Platforms, Event-Sourcing
  • Practices & Methodologies: Agile, DevOps, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, Scrum, User Stories, Data Modeling
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, CDK), Azure, GCP, Docker, Bitbucket, GitHub, Git, Octopus Deploy
  • Languages & Frameworks: C#, .NET 9, ASP.NET, Blazor, Typescript
  • Databases & Messaging: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Marten, NServiceBus, Rebus, RabbitMQ, REST, GraphQL, gRPC

Experience

Derivative Path, Inc - Managing Director, Application Platform

1/2024 - Present

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership for department of software engineers and development managers, providing mentorship, guidance, and career development opportunities
  • Recruit, hire, and onboard top talent to build high-performing engineering teams
  • Build and manage internal developer platform (IDP) to streamline development and operations
  • Develop and execute strategic roadmaps for software development projects aligned with company goals and objectives
  • Implement best practices and methodologies to improve software development processes, productivity, and quality
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance on architectural design, scalability, and performance optimization
  • Define testing strategies to ensure software quality and reliability, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing
  • Evaluate new vendors, negotiate license and support terms, and maintain vendor partnerships

Accomplishments

  • Architected and implemented a knowledge-based AI Agent to provide self-service guidance and accelerate developer onboarding.
  • Cut new service creation time from days to hours by creating standardized project templates with built-in patterns and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Empowered software engineers with advanced distributed system design patterns, reducing development time and improving adherence to platform standards.
  • Implemented a micro frontend architecture, enabling teams to deploy UI components independently, reducing cross-team coordination and accelerating feature delivery.
  • Introduced cloud infrastructure budget projections, enabling proactive financial communication and encouraging cost optimization.

Derivative Path, Inc - Director, Incubation & Transformation

12/2021 - 12/23

Accomplishments

  • Spearheaded an organizational transformation to a next-generation architecture, empowering teams with standard patterns and education on distributed systems, increasing responsiveness and maintainability.
  • Envisioned and executed the strategy to create a 5-team platform engineering group, allowing product-aligned teams to focus on customer value.
  • Hired and mentored 3 engineering managers, organizing staff into healthy, focused teams that deliver consistent and sustainable value.

Derivative Path, Inc - Software Architect

11/2020 - 12/2021

Accomplishments

  • Established patterns and practices to transform a monolithic system into a Twelve-Factor, cloud-native microservices architecture.
  • Created and executed a strategic plan for the monolith-to-microservices transformation, ensuring teams acquired the necessary skills for success.

Afterman Software - Principal Software Architect

3/2020 - 11/2020

Accomplishments

  • Refactored the automated end-to-end testing suite to align with bounded contexts, significantly reducing test modification time.
  • Played an instrumental role in creating a PPP loan processing interface for the Small Business Administration, credited with saving nearly a million US jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Delivered a proof-of-concept for automated AWS environment provisioning using Octopus Deploy and AWS CDK.

Billtrust - Development Manager

9/2019 - 3/2020

Accomplishments

  • Improved team velocity from one release every two months to every two weeks by reorganizing team structure and reducing communication friction.
  • Shifted planning to include engineers in initial discovery, which reduced estimation time, improved accuracy, and increased sprint goal consistency.
  • Replaced fine-grained estimates with t-shirt sizing for future epics, enabling better business decisions while reducing team estimation workload.

Afterman Software - Sr, Software Architect

12/2017 - 9/2019

Accomplishments

  • Mentored development teams on building testable, maintainable code and refactoring legacy systems, covering topics like Bounded Contexts, IoC, SOLID, and CQRS.
  • Provided technical leadership to a new team, enabling them to become productive with a cloud-native microservices stack (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, .NET Core, NServiceBus) within three sprints.

Virtua Health - IS Manager, Application Development

10/2016 - 11/2017

Accomplishments

  • Established enhanced coding patterns (C#, EF, DI, CI) and automated deployment processes (Team City, Octopus Deploy), reducing manual deployment errors.
  • Designed and led the implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture to support the Population Health program.

Automotive Resources International (ARI) - Analyst III / Lead Developer

11/2013 - 10/2016

Accomplishments

  • Led the design and delivery of a near real-time vehicle telemetry system that reduced data processing time from days to 11 seconds, handling 1,200 data points per second.

Additional Experiences

CTN Solutions - Senior Consultant / Software Architect

4/2013 - 11/2013

ARAMARK - Senior Technical Analyst / Lead Developer

8/2010 - 3/2013

Education & Certifications

Wharton Executive CTO Program - 2023

Wharton Executive - Product Management and Strategy - 2023

Wharton Executive - Scaling a Business: How to Build a Unicorn - 2022

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF) - 2022,2025

Salisbury University - Perdue School of Business Bachelor of Science - Business, Management, Marketing

Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA - 2015

Acknowledgements

Particular Software Recognized Professional - 2020

References

Available Upon Request