About
Thomas Cesare-Herriau is founder and CTO of SpotPay. He previously served as an engineer at Brex, advancing to Principal Engineer over six years, where he led teams and departments in financial products and platforms, and also worked at Google.
Founder at SpotPayYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Thomas went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran SpotPay's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Thomas can intro founders to SpotPay's investors below.
SpotPay's investors · 2
Co-founders at SpotPay
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Zsika PhillipFounder
Experience
- SpotPay (YC W26)Founder + CTOcurrent2025 — present
- BrexPrincipal Software Engineer2021 — 2024New York City Metropolitan Area
- BrexTechnical Lead/Manager - Observability team2019 — 2021Greater New York City Area
- BrexTechnical Lead/Manager2019San Francisco Bay Area
- BrexSoftware Engineer2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2016 — 2018Région de la baie de San Francisco, États-Unis
- Analytics Media GroupSoftware Engineer2014 — 2015New York, New York
- Analytics Media GroupSoftware Engineering Consultant2014France
- DoctosantéCo-founder & CTO2013 — 2015
- Voyage PriveMarketing Intern2012Région de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
- Voyage PriveMarketing Intern2011 — 2012Région de Aix-En-Provence, France
Skills & more
Information Technology2Data Analysis6Databases3Data Mining1Data Modeling1Marketing Analytics5Programming1InternetEnglish1Python2D3.js1C++2
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Machine LearningFrenchBusiness StrategySQLJavaLanguages English · French · Portuguese · Spanish
- Machine Learning — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Thomas Cesare-Herriau?
- Thomas Cesare-Herriau is founder and CTO of SpotPay. He previously served as an engineer at Brex, advancing to Principal Engineer over six years, where he led teams and departments in financial products and platforms, and also worked at Google.
- Where does Thomas Cesare-Herriau work?
- Thomas Cesare-Herriau is Founder of SpotPay.
- What companies did Thomas Cesare-Herriau found?
- Thomas Cesare-Herriau founded SpotPay.
- Where did Thomas Cesare-Herriau go to school?
- Thomas Cesare-Herriau studied at CentraleSupélec (Ingénieur, Computer and Information Sciences); UNSW (Intern in Cloud Computing Research Laboratory, Computer Science); CPGE Lycée Chateaubriand (PC*).
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Shared employers
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