Jonathan Lapierre

Chief Technology Officer, Citylogix

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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About

Strategic and tactical leader and entrepreneur in Web and IT, deeply passionate about technology, specifically in computer science. Leader, problem-solver, achiever, and a team player who uses technical and analytical decision-making to create value and deliver IT projects smoothly using agile methodologies — versatile, highly autonomous, and adaptable.

Currently leading Citylogix's global technology strategy across AI, software, and geospatial systems — responsible for engineering, R&D, and IT across multiple regions, driving AI-powered municipal platforms, geospatial analytics, and cloud-based SaaS infrastructure focused on scaling secure, reliable, and intelligent systems that transform infrastructure decision-making.

"It's your ATTITUDE, not your APTITUDE, that determines your ALTITUDE!" — Zig Ziglar

Specialties: Strategic Planning · Solution Architecture · High-availability web applications · Capacity planning · Infrastructure improvements · Web portals · Cloud hosting · API ecosystems · Business Intelligence · Reservation systems · Banking & banking security · High-volume data warehousing · Key metrics definition.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer
Citylogix
June 2026 — Present · Montreal, QC
Leading Citylogix's global technology strategy across AI, software, and geospatial systems. Responsible for engineering, R&D, and IT across multiple regions, driving AI-powered municipal platforms, geospatial analytics, and cloud-based SaaS infrastructure.
Chief Technology Officer
Explorance
January 2018 — June 2026 (8 yrs 6 mo) · Greater Montreal
Steered Explorance through continuous technological evolution and market leadership — orchestrating advanced technology strategy, product development, and a scalable, agile infrastructure. Championed data analytics and AI to turn raw feedback into actionable insight, and helped Explorance become the #1 best place to work in Canada.
Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO)
Explorance
June 2022 — June 2024 (2 yrs 1 mo) · Montreal, QC
Senior executive overseeing development and implementation of Explorance's product suite. Led a team of product managers and engineers aligned with marketing, sales, and support. Delivered the next-generation Blue Feedback Platform rearchitecture and the MLY AI platform API for unstructured-communication insight.
Lead Software Architect
Explorance
May 2016 — December 2017 (1 yr 8 mo) · Greater Montreal
Lead architect across multiple products, including the Bluepulse feedback platform and Blue solutions.
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Thoransoft
May 2007 — May 2016 (9 yrs 1 mo) · Laval, QC
Co-founded a software services company built on simplicity. Orchestrated projects end-to-end, built C-level executive dashboards, tailored BI and web architectures to client needs, and led the team across ASP.NET/C#, Azure, SQL Server, and SSIS.
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
CSSS Laval
2008 — 2009 (1 yr) · Greater Montreal
Delivered the "SmartHealth" regional data warehouse project, accelerating access to accurate information for real-time decision-making (SQL Server OLAP, SSIS, ASP.NET/C#).
Business Intelligence Developer
TechSolCom
2008 · Greater Montreal
Contributed to a large-scale BI project for COGECO Cable — audit tools and data warehouse design using Oracle, OWB, and PL/SQL.
Software Engineering Lead
CGI
January 2001 — November 2007 (6 yrs 11 mo) · Greater Montreal
Implemented watch-list filtering for international terrorist-financing compliance, led project delivery, built a corporate mortgage data warehouse, and contributed to Government of Canada banking-regulation and credit-risk projects.
Software Engineer
Cognicase
2001 — 2003 (2 yrs) · Greater Montreal
Built the Oracle Corporate Warehouse at National Bank of Canada and online data transaction software for the NBC Risk Management Group.
IT System Administrator
Roy & Bourassa
March 1999 — March 2000 (1 yr 1 mo) · Greater Montreal
Installed, configured, and maintained hardware/software; ran backups and migrated two offices from Token Ring to 10baseT.

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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