Summary
Alexandre Hajjar is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer with 13 years building product-led startups and developer-first services, currently co-founding Butter from Portugal. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Legalstart.fr, where he bootstrapped the product, scaled an engineering team to market leadership, and ran end-to-end technical and product strategy across Python/Django and modern frontend stacks. Alexandre combines hands-on systems design (experience with Haskell, Elm, Node, blockchain integration) with pragmatic product operations, rules-as-code and language-design work from his time at beta.gouv.fr. Early projects include predictive finance tooling and real-time data pipelines, reflecting a persistent focus on data-driven productization. He pairs formal computer-science training from Telecom ParisTech/EURECOM with operator experience in hiring, OKRs, A/B testing and scaling engineering culture.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at Lycée Pasteur
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Telecom ParisTech
MSc CS, MSc CS at EURECOM
English