Bradley Jolicoeur

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

Professional Summary

Strategic Technology Leader and Hands-on Architect with over 20 years of experience transforming engineering organizations and delivering scalable, distributed systems. Proven track record of driving business value through architectural innovation, including the adoption of AI/ML agents and Internal Developer Platforms. Expert in bridging the gap between technical vision and business goals, leading high-performing teams to reduce cloud costs, accelerate delivery velocity, and improve system reliability, while actively contributing to code and architectural prototypes. Passionate about leveraging Generative AI and LLMs to empower engineering teams and solve complex business problems.

Core Competencies

  • Leadership & Strategy: Organizational Transformation, Technology Strategy, Cost Optimization, Engineering Culture
  • AI & Innovation: Generative AI, LLM Integration, AI Agents, Copilot, Model Context Protocol
  • Architecture: Microservices, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Sourcing, Distributed Systems
  • Methodologies: Agile, DevOps, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, Scrum
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, CDK), Azure, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines
  • Development: C#, .NET 9, ASP.NET, Blazor, TypeScript, Python
  • Data & Messaging: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Marten, NServiceBus, RabbitMQ, OpenTelemetry

Experience

Derivative Path, Inc | Remote

Managing Director, Application Platform (1/2024 - Present) Director, Incubation & Transformation (12/2021 - 12/2023) Software Architect (11/2020 - 12/2021)

Progressed from Architect to Managing Director, leading the architectural transformation of the platform and establishing the Platform Engineering organization.

Strategic Leadership & Cost Optimization

  • Manage a department of software engineers, managers, and directors, providing mentorship, guidance, and career development opportunities.
  • Hired and mentored 3 Engineering Managers, organizing staff into healthy, focused teams that deliver consistent and sustainable value.
  • Reduced Observability costs by 50% by guiding the transition from Observe to Coralogix, while improving system resilience.
  • Optimized AWS infrastructure usage, resulting in $100k savings under budget for fiscal year 2024.
  • Designed and implemented a migration from RabbitMQ to SQS, projected to save $24,000 annually in cloud spend while increasing message stability.
  • Envisioned and executed a 2-year strategy to establish a 5-pillar Application Platform team, enabling stream-aligned teams to focus on customer value rather than infrastructure.

AI Innovation & Engineering Efficiency

  • Architected and implemented a knowledge-based AI Agent grounded in internal documentation to provide self-service guidance, significantly accelerating developer onboarding.
  • Facilitated AI IDE pilots (Amazon Q vs. Copilot) and established organizational patterns for AI-assisted coding, enhancing developer productivity.
  • Created standardized solution templates with built-in CI/CD pipelines and architectural patterns, reducing new service creation time from days to hours.
  • Implemented a Micro-Frontend architecture, decoupling UI deployments and enabling teams to deliver features independently without cross-team coordination.

Architecture & Team Development

  • Maintained active hands-on involvement, writing production code for core platform libraries and creating reference implementations to lead by example.
  • Spearheaded the transformation from a monolithic system to a Twelve-Factor cloud-native microservices architecture.
  • Facilitated 4 cohorts of Advanced Distributed System Design training, upskilling the engineering department on distributed patterns and reducing technical debt.
  • Replaced Auth0 with FusionAuth on time and with zero downtime, securing scalable SSO capabilities for the platform.

Afterman Software | Remote

Principal Software Architect (3/2020 - 11/2020)

  • Saved ~1 million jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic by playing a key role in architecting and delivering a high-scale PPP loan processing interface for the Small Business Administration (SBA) under extreme time pressure.
  • Refactored automated end-to-end testing suites to align with Bounded Contexts, drastically reducing test maintenance time and build failures.
  • Delivered a proof-of-concept for automated AWS environment provisioning using Octopus Deploy and AWS CDK, paving the way for immutable infrastructure.

Billtrust | Lawrenceville, NJ

Development Manager (9/2019 - 3/2020)

  • Increased release velocity by 400% (from every 2 months to every 2 weeks) by restructuring teams and reducing communication friction.
  • Improved estimation accuracy and sprint goal completion by shifting planning to include engineers in initial discovery and adopting T-shirt sizing for epics.

Afterman Software | Remote

Sr. Software Architect (12/2017 - 9/2019)

  • Enabled a new team to become productive with a cloud-native microservices stack (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, .NET Core, NServiceBus) within just three sprints.
  • Mentored development teams on SOLID principles, CQRS, and Domain-Driven Design, significantly improving code maintainability and testability.

Virtua Health | Marlton, NJ

IS Manager, Application Development (10/2016 - 11/2017)

  • Eliminated manual deployment errors by establishing automated deployment pipelines (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy).
  • Designed and led the implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to support the Population Health program.

Automotive Resources International (ARI) | Mt Laurel, NJ

Analyst III / Lead Developer (11/2013 - 10/2016)

  • Reduced data processing time from days to 11 seconds by leading the design of a near real-time vehicle telemetry system handling 1,200 data points per second.

Additional Experience

  • CTN Solutions - Senior Consultant / Software Architect (2013)
  • ARAMARK - Senior Technical Analyst / Lead Developer (2010 - 2013)
  • Jolicoeur Consulting, LLC - Owner / Senior Consultant (2009 - 2010)
  • Bradrick Group, Inc. - Owner / Senior Consultant (2006 - 2009)
  • Data Automation Systems, Inc. - Owner / Senior Consultant (2003 - 2006)
  • Sengen - Director, Applications and Systems (2001 - 2003)
  • Data Automation Systems, Inc. - Owner / Consultant (1998 - 2001)

Education & Certifications

  • Wharton Executive CTO Program - University of Pennsylvania (2023)
  • Product Management and Strategy - Wharton Executive Education (2023)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Renewed 2025)
  • Bachelor of Science - Business, Management, Marketing - Salisbury University