James Coplien
Software Architect And Lean Agile Consultant at Gertrud & Cope
Elsinore, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJames Coplien is a veteran software architect and lean-agile consultant with over four decades of pioneering work at the intersection of software patterns, organizational design, and EDA systems. He has influenced the foundations of Agile, Extreme Programming, and design practices through research roles at AT&T Bell Labs and later translated that thinking into hands-on coaching, training, and architecture for companies across Europe and the U.S. As founder of Gertrud & Cope he helps organizations align technical architecture with human and organizational concerns, and is known for contributions such as the DCI paradigm and early pattern language applications in telecom. His background spans academia and industry—from advising MS students to designing runtime visibility tools for large SoC development—bringing both deep technical craftsmanship and a systems view of organizational change. Based in Denmark, he blends rare historical perspective on language and design evolution (early C++ adopter) with contemporary Agile practice as a Certified Scrum Trainer and practitioner.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin - MadisonHigh School Diploma, Natural and Applied Sciences, High School Diploma, Natural and Applied Sciences at Monroe High SchoolPhD, Computer Science; Doktorat i Wetenschappen, PhD, Computer Science; Doktorat i Wetenschappen at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Danish, French
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Github Skills (5)
dci10
programming-language9
design-patterns6
domain-driven-design4
single-page-application3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
FelixPetriconi/DCI_MoneyTransfer
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
interactioncppdata-contextmoneymoney-transfer
mathiasverraes/15yearsddd
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Domain-Driven Design: The First 15 Years
Contributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
domain-driven-design
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