# Alex Jolicoeur

> Software Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexjolicoeur

I am a Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable systems and integrating cloud infrastructure. Throughout my career, I have honed my expertise in designing, developing, and automating Data Pipelines and ML operations while ensuring system performance is balanced with cost efficiency. I’m committed to delivering impactful results with my team and continuous learning.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Windfall Bio
Jan 2025 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer - Autonomy Team @ Blue River Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Developed and automated data ingestion, feature extraction, and labeling pipelines, while optimizing model training and evaluation workflows in close collaboration with the Robotics and ML teams

- Admin of the Autonomy Team's AWS account; Developed and maintained Terraform modules to manage resource deployments for autonomy sub-teams

- Streamlined CI/CD processes by migrating on-premise TeamCity workflows to GitHub Actions, enhancing reliability, simplifying operations, and accelerating build times

- Coached junior software engineers and directly managed a summer intern on auto-labeling system improvements and labeling cost analysis from design to implementation

### Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform @ Blue River Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- As a founding member of the data platform team - spearheaded the development and scaling of the data storage layer, REST API, data ingestion pipeline, labeling service integrations, and dataset management services for various robotics and machine learning sub-teams

- Developed an integrated data warehouse solution using AWS S3, Glue and Athena to serve business analytics and ad-hoc query use cases

- Developed and maintained deployment of Kubeflow on AWS used by both the platform and project teams to orchestrate pipelines and run notebook servers for machine learning and business use cases

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Front App
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed and maintained full-stack features and integrations with third-party services using Node.js, ExpressJS, AWS (ECS, RDS: MySQL), and AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3 while ensuring scalable and high-performing application functionality through comprehensive platform testing

- Developed internal tools, including a dashboard for monitoring, debugging, and retrying tasks in backend processes, significantly improving efficiency and streamlining customer onboarding

- Managed and resolved customer support requests, diagnosing and addressing technical issues related to backend services and infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ StarMaker Interactive
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
- Developed, scaled, and maintained the data storage layer and backend services including a REST API and video transcoding service, and YouTube API integration for the video karaoke mobile app features

- Developed internal tools for engineering and product teams, including a video moderation tool, and content management interfaces for near-instant updates of dynamic content in the mobile app resulting in improved workflow efficiency and product control

- After acquisition, migrated infrastructure and backend services from GCP to AWS

### Web Development Intern @ SumiLux Technologies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Created an e-mail module for the BriefingPlace.com cloud-based service using the Mailgun API for PHP

- Created an SMS and conference call module using the Twilio API for PHP allowing the client and server to send and receive SMS messages and to connect to calls with other users

- Stored and queried e-mail, SMS, and call data in a MySQL database

- Learned to use Git, maintaining a branch for my project

### iOS Developer Intern @ MotiveCast
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed features for iOS game "Ninja Army" honing Objective-C skills

- Created the intro movie controller, cropping and panning images and playing the intro soundtrack

- Created the mission rating controller for displaying and tracking mission results for the user

### Undergraduate Web Developer @ L.E.E.P.S
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | University of California Santa Cruz
- Improved site’s readability and created pages to show the papers and projects of the
research team using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and Python APIs with the Django web framework and MySQL datastore

- Created different viewing functions for Django to display and search all of the research
team’s papers and projects in Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Robert Louis Stevenson School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexjolicoeur
- Website: https://alexjolicoeur.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05