Alexandre Leclercq

As CTO of the Django Business Unit at La Banque Postale Consumer Finance, I lead the end-to-end technology vision and execution, building the entire tech organization from the ground up. My role covers strategy, architecture, delivery, and leadership — ensuring technology became a true enabler of business growth and innovation. I work closely with executive leadership to align innovation, performance, and compliance across the organization. I define the product and technical roadmap in partnership with business leaders and established the foundations for a scalable, high-performing engineering organization. Starting from zero, I built and structured a 35 person cross-functional team covering product management, engineering leadership, and development roles. I manage a €3–4M tech budget. My focus is on building scalable, secure, and efficient systems while fostering a strong engineering culture. Key Responsibilities: * Define and execute the unit’s technology and product roadmap in line with business strategy. * Lead enterprise architecture, tooling, and AI adoption to improve delivery workflows and scalability. * Scaled a multidisciplinary team (product, backend, frontend, and mobile engineers) with a strong delivery culture. * Oversee cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, and SRE practices, achieving 100% Infrastructure as Code and full CI/CD automation. * Ensure compliance with GDPR, DORA & banking regulations; manage annual security audits and vulnerability response. * Maintain delivery excellence through Agile best practices (Definition of Ready/Done, continuous improvement). * Drive innovation and technical excellence through internal training programs and continuous improvement loops. My mission as CTO is to create sustainable, secure, and high-performing technology organization — balancing innovation, scalability, and team culture to accelerate product and business outcomes.

As a co-founder Joe has been a fantastic challenge and the acquisition marked the transition of Joe’s technology and team into La Banque Postale (Django), where I continued as CTO to lead the post-acquisition integration, scaling, and transformation at enterprise level. As CTO, I was responsible for defining and executing the full technology and product strategy in a fast-growing startup environment. My mission was to build the tech organization from scratch and deliver a scalable, high-quality service capable of supporting rapid growth. Working closely with my co-founders, I designed the initial architecture, recruited the first engineers, and established the foundation for our platform — balancing speed, reliability, and innovation. Key Responsibilities: * Defined and executed the company’s technology and product roadmap from inception to market delivery. * Built the engineering organization from 0 to 8 people, covering backend, frontend, and mobile development. * Designed the overall architecture, selected the tech stack, and set up development best practices. * Implemented core DevOps processes, CI/CD automation, and cloud infrastructure management. * Structured agile workflows and delivery practices to ensure fast iteration and product-market fit. * Drove product innovation and experimentation to accelerate user growth and business scalability. * Established early documentation and knowledge-sharing standards to prepare for future scaling. My focus as CTO was to build a strong foundation for growth — creating the right mix of architecture, process, and team culture to take the product from idea to a fully operational and scalable platform.

As an independent CTO and technology advisor, I partnered with two growing companies to define their technology strategy, structure their teams, and scale their digital platforms. My mission was to help founders and leadership teams accelerate product delivery, build solid technical foundations, and prepare for long-term growth. I combined hands-on technical leadership with strategic guidance — focusing on architecture, team structure, and delivery excellence — to transform early-stage operations into mature, scalable tech organizations. Key Responsibilities: * Defined each company’s technical stack ensuring alignment with business strategy and growth objectives. * Designed scalable cloud architectures, selected tools and frameworks, and implemented best development practices. * Built and mentored cross-functional teams ( data, backend, frontend, devops), adapting structures to company maturity. * Set up delivery processes, agile rituals, and CI/CD pipelines to improve time-to-market and product reliability. * Advised founders on hiring, vendor selection, and technology investment decisions. * Supported MVP-to-scale transitions with a focus on performance, maintainability, and rapid iteration. Across both engagements, my role was to provide end-to-end technical leadership — helping companies move from vision to execution, build strong teams, and establish the processes and architecture needed to scale confidently.

As fintech CTO, I built the team and the product from scratch, our customers were banks. • Defined the product with business conterpart • Architected the solution technically • Managed the technical team with agile methodology • Applyed devSecOps Banking APIs, node.js, react.js, graphql, AWS, terraform

We sell hotel bookings and consulting to our corporate customers and business travel agencies. All the bookings are done with internet tools. We operate 10-100 Million of euros of bookings. We aggregate all the possible available hotel supply (GDS, wholesalers, hotel chains) to offer best prices to our customers. I deal with all technology aspects involved in the bookings for CDS Groupe. * I manage the development team * I manage the technology operations * I manage the products

I co-founded this company, we build a website CMS for travel agencies and business travel companies. We also built an ERP for hotel booking industry. The ERP does * finance and payments reconciliation * accounting integration * customers & hotels invoicing tool After 6 years, the company has been sold.

I founded Locarea in 2007 with another co-funder to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand solution for small to medium organizations. From the company administration to the technical conception through the customer relationship, my job is to define technical solutions, grow the company and ensure the customer satisfaction. We deliver web sites as a service. Our service allows companies to have their own magazine online. The magazine purpose may be corporate communication, press news or domain centric information. For more details please visit our website www.locarea.com.

I marketed an sold services for web sites in an internet company specialized in Social web. Responsible of business development for French market. Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI, advertising revenue and partnership with French web sites.

Developed the USIM chipcard driver for Sagem 3G handsets. Designing, developing, testing. This software is now used for all handsets made by Sagem.