Summary
Alexandre Thomas is a VP of Engineering with 11 years of experience building and leading backend teams for fast-growing SaaS companies in France. A former neuroscience research student, he brings a researcher's rigor to designing clean, maintainable architectures and simplifying legacy systems for production at scale. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and GraphQL, and a track record of recruiting, mentoring and structuring engineering teams. Alexandre repeatedly focuses on operational excellence—deployment, monitoring and integrations between data science and frontend teams—to shrink feedback loops and accelerate delivery. He progressed from API developer to lead roles at Mailjet and EasyMovie before taking senior and leadership roles at Aive, where he now shapes engineering strategy. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic engineering, technical hiring acumen, and a curiosity-driven background that helps bridge research and product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 Research Neuroscience STAPS Nanterre, Master 2 Research Neuroscience STAPS Nanterre at Université Paris Nanterre
English, German, French