Joel Wickard
Senior Systems Architect at Icario
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Wickard is a Senior Systems Architect based in Minneapolis with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering web and data integration solutions across health, finance, and retail domains. At Icario he progressed from Principal Developer to Senior Systems Architect, leading full-stack teams and shaping architecture for health & wellness platforms and the Novu product line. He combines practical engineering—Rails, Backbone, Groovy, SpringBoot, microservices and REST APIs—with project leadership skills in requirements, estimation and agile delivery. Prior roles at U.S. Bank, Target and consulting engagements show a strong track record modernizing legacy Java/JEE systems and building performant APIs. Comfortable switching between deep technical work and stakeholder-facing responsibilities, he also brings operations experience from running his own firm and managing deployments and security policies. Colleagues value his blend of steady technical judgment, mentorship, and curiosity about new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Normandale Community College
Github Skills (33)
authentication9
wordpress9
oauth2-provider9
authorize8
workspace7
machinist7
x64dbg7
audio-effect6
release-management6
branches6
ctr6
wordpress-plugin6
digital-signal-processing6
nim-lang6
authorization-server5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwickard/omniauth-wordpress-oauth2-plugin
Dec 2013 - May 2019
Strategy for Authenticating against a wordpress install using the Oauth2 provider plugin.
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 5 months
providerwordpressauthenticationstrategyoauth2-provider
jwickard/stravabit
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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