Christophe Leclef
Product Engineer | Software • DevOps • Product
Founder — Fluence Labs
20+ years across the full spectrum of software delivery — from writing the first line of code to defining business strategy. Backend engineering, cloud operations, product ownership and technical coaching, in fintech, banking and deep tech.
Think — product strategy & ROI·Build — architecture & engineering·Run — cloud, DevOps·Coach — technical coaching & training
Experience
My own company, continuing the Datavillage mission as an independent.Deep TechConfidential Computing
- Mission-focused consulting: product engineering, cloud operations and technical coaching for entrepreneurs building software.
Python · React · GCP · Terraform · AI-assisted engineering
Deep tech scale-up (Brussels) — running AI over sensitive data without ever exposing it.Deep TechFraud & AMLMedia
- Full-stack product engineering in a micro-company: development, operations and product decisions in a single seat, no handover.
- Delivery on fraud & AML detection between competing institutions, and consent-based personalisation on the Solid ecosystem (RTBF, VRT).
- Heavy use of AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code) as a working method to multiply execution speed — not a demo.
Python · React · GCP · Terraform · Helm · Docker / Kubernetes · Confidential Computing
Belgium’s largest fintech, founded by Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING and KBC. Used by 200+ software companies.FintechOpen BankingRegulated Payments
- Wrote the whole PSD2 bank connectivity — every bank with its own reading of the OpenBanking standard, unified behind a single API covering 1 700+ European banks in 15 countries.
- Strengthened the core of the account aggregation engine serving account information and payment initiation.
- Took over product ownership when the founders left: the job turned from building the product to building its roadmap.
- Hands-on with the crypto layer the regulation demands: X509 certificates, HSM, JWT signing (HS256 / RS256), OAuth2.
Elixir · Ruby · VueJS · PostgreSQL · JSON:API · AWS · Terraform · Vault · Prometheus · Grafana · Kibana · OpenTelemetry
Belgian consultancy in IT engineering and cybersecurity — seven years of missions.BankingPharmaPublic Sector
- Four years at BNP Paribas Fortis, starting inside the small technical innovation team that piloted the new way of working — and proved it delivered.
- The bank then scaled its Agile transformation org-wide under SAFe, running ~70 Agile coaches alongside a technical track: the DevOps Coach role.
- Created and led the DevOps coaching team scaling the technical capabilities of ~200 product teams: a methodology built from scratch, then taken into the field.
- Focus on test automation (unit & CI, end-to-end with Cucumber and OpenAPI), Git adoption and CI/CD with GitLab — backend to mobile.
SAFe · GitLab CI/CD · Cucumber · Swagger / OpenAPI · Ruby · Node.js
Belgian pioneer of geolocation and field force automation (later Emixis). Ten years on one product.TelematicsConstructionUtilitiesPublic Sector
- Backend development on a multi-service platform you could run from a mobile device — an unusual proposition in 2002.
- Ran our own servers (HP Blade, Red Hat Linux, MySQL Cluster) before migrating the platform to AWS: operating what we built, from day one.
- Grew into product road mapping, UX and team leadership, ending up as the CEO’s right hand. Clients: Thomas & Piron, BESIX, Proximus, Engie.
Java · XSLT · XML · JavaScript · Apache Tomcat · MySQL Cluster · Linux · AWS