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Jonathan LapierreChief Technology Officer, Citylogix
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A Career, Storyboarded

Ten scenes, chronologically — from a Token Ring migration to AI-powered municipal platforms.

Token Ring 10baseT
IT System Administrator
Roy & Bourassa
March 1999 — March 2000 (1 yr 1 mo) · Greater Montreal
Where it started: installing, configuring, and maintaining hardware and software, running backups that actually restored, and migrating two Montreal-area offices from Token Ring to 10baseT.
Software Engineer
Cognicase
2001 — 2003 (2 yrs) · Greater Montreal
Built the Oracle Corporate Warehouse at National Bank of Canada and the online data transaction software behind it — infrastructure that had to be right the first time.
Software Engineering Lead
CGI
January 2001 — November 2007 (6 yrs 11 mo) · Greater Montreal
Led the automation of a watch-list filtering solution for international terrorist-financing compliance, built a mortgage data warehouse, and contributed to a Government of Canada banking-regulation project.
Business Intelligence Developer
TechSolCom
2008 · Greater Montreal
Helped design and build a data warehouse and audit tools for COGECO — Montreal's cable distributor — turning operational data into something decision-makers could use.
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
CSSS Laval
2008 — 2009 (1 yr) · Greater Montreal
Delivered "SmartHealth," a regional healthcare data warehouse giving CSSS Laval managers real-time visibility into care and resource allocation.
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Thoransoft
May 2007 — May 2016 (9 yrs 1 mo) · Laval, QC
Co-founded Thoransoft with two other founders on a simple guiding principle — simplicity — and spent nine years building BI and web architectures, executive dashboards, and the infrastructure behind them.
Lead Software Architect
Explorance
May 2016 — December 2017 (1 yr 8 mo) · Greater Montreal
Took on architecture for multiple Explorance products, including the Bluepulse feedback platform and the Blue solutions suite.
Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO)
Explorance
June 2022 — June 2024 (2 yrs 1 mo) · Montreal, QC
As Chief Product and Technology Officer, led the rearchitecture of the Blue Feedback Platform into its next generation and the launch of MLY, an AI platform turning unstructured feedback into actionable insight.
Chief Technology Officer
Explorance
January 2018 — June 2026 (8 yrs 6 mo) · Greater Montreal
Eight years as CTO steering Explorance's technology strategy — building an agile, scalable infrastructure, championing AI-driven insight, and helping the company become the #1 Best Place to Work in Canada.
Chief Technology Officer
Citylogix
June 2026 — Present · Montreal, QC
Now leading Citylogix's global technology strategy — AI, software, and geospatial systems powering municipal platforms and cloud-based SaaS infrastructure that help cities make better infrastructure decisions.

Top Skills

Strategic Planning Solution Architecture Regulatory Compliance Critical Thinking Problem Solving High-Availability Web Apps Capacity Planning Cloud Hosting (Azure) API Ecosystems Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Banking Security AI / Machine Learning Platforms Geospatial Systems Team Leadership English (Full Professional) French (Native/Bilingual)

Contact

Based in Montreal, Quebec — always open to a conversation about technology strategy and leadership.

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