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Yann Piot

Yann Piot

Solutions Architect | AI-Augmented Digital Delivery

Brisbane, QLD, AU
+61 (0) 449 553 908
English, French, Spanish

Background


About

About

<p>A hands-on Solutions Architect with <b>15+ years of experience</b> leading digital initiatives across product design, systems integration, and digital delivery.</p><p>I take on <b>high-ambiguity projects</b> and systematically eliminate that ambiguity through deep thinking, disciplined methodology, close client collaboration, and sustained change management. A mature professional with a deep command of process, procedure, and clear communication, I am also an <b>advanced AI workflow user</b> throughout the entire SDLC.</p><p>I bring a wealth of skills across <b>business analysis, solution architecture, product development, digital delivery, and team leadership.</b></p><p>Proven track record in <b>full-stack software engineering, cloud integration, and modern cloud infrastructure</b>. Comprehensive business acumen with <b>broad experience</b>: startup founding, SaaS, Insurance & Banking, Incentives, Media & Advertising, Government Sector, Pharmaceuticals, Mining & Resources, and Civil Engineering.</p>

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Implementation Solutions Architect, Obzervr (Brisbane, Australia)

    Jul, 2024 - Present

    Working under the company's CTO, I deliver practical technology solutions in the SaaS maintenance-mobility space, lead client implementations and integration initiatives, and champion AI-augmented delivery practices within my area of the business.

    • Advanced daily use of Claude Code and agentic AI workflows (VS Code, MCP-enabled tooling).

    • Built AI workflows: OODA (Observe/Orient/Decide/Act) loops to resolve 'fog of war' project uncertainty, spec-driven development (SDD) skills and prompts, and form digitisation (legacy service sheets to digital templates, scaling to hundreds of forms).

    • Design and deliver integrations: standard ERP connectors (SAP, AMT, MEX) and core product features such as SCIM-based identity management and user provisioning.

    • Deliver client implementations (Queensland Rail, Emeco, Queensland Sugar) and complex change initiatives for mining and energy clients (Thiess, Arrow Energy, Anglo American, Evolution Mining).

    • Lead and coordinate digital delivery across clients, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, and QA Analysts; produce solution architecture designs, BRDs, and functional/technical specifications.

    • Drive change management through complex organisational dynamics, aligning internal and client teams and overcoming resistance to modern SaaS and AI adoption.

    • Support pre-sales (scoping, technical discovery workshops, RFPs, SOWs) and champion stronger SDLC practices, procedures, and standard product capabilities.

  • Business Analyst (Consultant), Hatch Ltd (Brisbane, Australia)

    Oct, 2023 - Jun, 20247 months

    Led a client engagement to deliver a data integration platform for MMG, a tier-2 mining company.

    • Delivered an ETL data integration platform for MMG using Azure Data Factory

    • Project facilitation: delivery and stakeholders management

    • Solution architecture, solution delivery, and documentation

    • Delivering Microsoft Azure solutions (Azure Data Factory, SQL, Function Apps, etc.)

    • On-premises IT integration

    • Contributing to client proposals, business development artifacts, and other initiatives

    • Building, upgrading and maintaining various in-house applications, tools, and proofs of concept

  • Solutions Architect (Founder), Bitswap Pty Ltd (Sydney, Australia)

    Dec, 2019 - Mar, 20233 years 3 months

    Bitswap makes it simple for Bitcoin owners to shop with their digital money. Use your Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and Ripple to purchase digital gift cards from 100+ retailers in Australia.

    • Business Founder

    • End-to-end solution design & delivery (C#/.NET Core/SQL and Angular 15)

    • System architecture with a particular focus on full-stack software engineering and DevOps

    • 3rd party partnerships and HTTPS API integration

    • Managed all business operations: company administration, regulatory compliance, and advertising

    • Wound down the business in 2023 after regulatory and market shifts eroded unit economics before sufficient runway could be secured

  • Senior Business Systems Analyst, Blackhawk Network (Sydney, Australia)

    Sep, 2017 - Feb, 20213 years 5 months

    Global provider of incentives and commerce solutions. Working under direct supervision of the Managing Director / VP, I sparked positive transformations within the organization and streamlined the company's operations in a fast-pace, high-growth environment.

    • Oversaw a development team of 7+

    • COTS enterprise programs in a high-growth and highly distributed environment

    • End-to-end digital delivery (.NET/SQL)

    • Application architecture

    • Product strategy & design

    • Product owner with a focus on banking and insurance clients

    • Support senior executive team with enterprise sales

    • Account management & stakeholder liaison

    • Clients and Suppliers integrations (highly distributed environment)

    • Successful track record of spearheading change and improvements in the organisation

  • Business Analyst (contractor), The Copyright Agency

    Feb, 2017 - Aug, 20176 months

    LearningField provides an unrivalled choice of e-textbooks for Australian schools. Our unique subscription offer gives teachers and students unlimited access to more than 12,000 chapters from world-leading educational publishers through a single platform.

    • Oversaw a development team of 4

    • Support the Lead Business Analyst through two Business transformation initiatives.

    • Deliver high-end ebook platform for schools throughout Australia.

    • Define the project roadmap

    • Write functional and technical specifications

    • Liaise with clients and partners

    • Elevated customer support and platform management.

  • Technical Business Analyst, Havas Worldwide (Sydney, Australia)

    Sep, 2014 - Feb, 20172 years 4 months

    Advertising and communication agency. Clients included Australian Defence Force (adfcareers.gov.au) and Telstra. Notable achievements include dissecting requirements for large scale change management initiatives and design an application capture flow that significantly streamlined our client's hiring process.

    • Part of digital operations (team of 40)

    • Solution requirements & specification, UI/UX wire-frames

    • End-to-end digital delivery and work with Project/Account managers, software engineers, graphic designers, QAT teams

    • Redesign ADF's enterprise-level applicant acquisition workflow system (20,000+ qualified job applications per month)

    • Redesign ADF's website information architecture (~7,000 canonical URLs, ~400 different roles, ~3 ADF branches)

    • Scope ad-hoc ADF campaigns and micro-sites

    • Vendor and technology selection and implementation, penetration testing

  • Business Analyst / Business Solutions Architect, Alpha Salmon (Sydney, Australia)

    May, 2012 - Aug, 20142 years 3 months

    Advertising and communication agency. Working under direct supervision of the senior management, I was responsible for scoping and delivering project while liaising with our Clients. Clients included TAB, Sky Racing, Kraft, Budget, StarTrack. Key achievement include developing the original TAB and SkyRacing wagering mobile apps, a first in Australia (now a multi-billion dollar income channel), as well as an innovative parcel delivery tracking app used by StarTrack.

    • Oversaw a development team of 5+

    • Client liaison, Proposals and RFPs

    • Project scoping and documentation

    • Wireframes and proofs of concept

    • End-to-end digital delivery

  • Business Analyst, WGA Group

    Mar, 2011 - Dec, 201110 months

    Digital and IT services company (30 employees).

    • Business development and managing teams on call duty.

    • End-to-end IT infrastructures (front-end website, in-house CMS etc.)

  • Software Engineer, Self-employed

    Jan, 2007 - Jun, 202215 years 6 months

    Business and technology freelancing

    • 8 website development projects, including Airbnb-style holiday rental booking platforms before Airbnb popularised the model (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP)

    • 1 project contracting as a business administrator

    • 1 project developing proof-of-concept app for an insurance client

  • Financial Analyst intern, Thales Group

    Feb, 2007 - Oct, 20078 months

    Financial reporting for the Transportation & Information Business Unit (~200m EUR annual budget).

  • Financial Analyst intern, Sanofi

    Feb, 2006 - Oct, 20068 months

    Reporting to the Head of R&D, supported the financial reporting team with dashboards and KPIs (~5.5b EUR annual budget) and built a data reporting tool using Excel/VBA.

  • Administrator, Reseaux & Services

    Jan, 2004 - Dec, 20063 years

    Telecommunication company (50 employees). Accounting & billing, payables/receivables, finance and operational reporting, and development of information systems & tools.

  • Telecommunications technician, Reseaux & Services

    Jan, 2001 - Dec, 20044 years

    Telecommunication company (50 employees). Installed & upgraded telecommunication systems (copper and fibre optics) for residential sites and data centres.

Skills

Skills

  • AI Engineering & Agentic Workflows

    Claude Code & Claude agentic workflows in VS Code

    OODA-loop AI project management: resolving uncertainty in complex, multi-stakeholder projects

    Spec-driven development (SDD) and AI-augmented SDLC

    Multi-agent orchestration: subagents, adversarial review

    Prompt & context engineering, reusable skill authoring

    MCP-enabled tooling: plugin and connector consumption across business systems

    AI form digitisation pipelines (batch processing, QA playbooks)

    AI adoption & change management across internal and client teams

  • Business Analysis

    AI-assisted requirements elicitation, research, and system design

    Requirements elicitation & functional/technical specifications

    UML workflows, Swim lane diagrams

    Use cases/user stories

    Gap analysis, Fishbone diagrams

    Product backlog management

    Architecture, class, hierarchy, and sequence diagrams

    Wireframing (Axure - legacy)

  • Application Architecture

    MCP/API-first integration, SCIM identity provisioning

    Primary: Microsoft Azure and DevOps solutions (Azure Data Factory, SQL, Function Apps, etc.)

    Secondary: On-premises infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Designs: distributed, cloud-based, service-oriented, micro-services, event-driven, real-time responsive

    Web, API design & data integration

  • Front-end Software Engineering

    Web: HTTPS, HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular 20/Universal, Bootstrap

    Native (legacy): Ionic 1/Cordova, exposure to Java/Android and Objective C for iOS

    Other: W3C, WCAG, ARIA, XHR, web socket, JSON, XML, RxJS

  • Back-end Software Engineering

    Current stack: C#/.NET Core microservices-as-a-monolith with event-driven and reactive programming patterns (ReactiveX/RxJS)

    Languages: C#, NodeJS, PHP

    Database modelling: SQL/MySQL, MDX

    Frameworks: .NET Core, Entity Framework, ReactiveX, .NET MVC, CodeIgniter, GroceryCRUD, RedBeans ORM

    Architectures: MVC, MVVM, Service-oriented (SOA), SOAP/WSDL

    Tools: Visual Studio, VS Code, SSMS, SSAS, SourceTree, NCrunch, Fiddler, etc.

    System Admin: Microsoft Azure infrastructure services, IIS, Plesk, CPanel, Apache, Amazon AWS (EC2, SES, ELB etc.), etc.

    Misc: Git, NPM, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), PowerShell, Bash, FileZilla, etc.

  • Project Management & Delivery

    Critical Path Methodology (CPM)

    AI-augmented SDLC

    Agile delivery (scrum, kanban, product backlog, sprint backlog)

    Tooling: Atlassian suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Trello)

    Project management (PRINCE2 framework)

    DevOps: Git repository best practices, CI/CD, monitoring & logging

  • Other software

    AI tooling: Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, GitHub Copilot

    Microsoft Office 365: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Access

    Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.

Education

Education

  • Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA, dual-degree program), St John's University (New York, United States)

    Sep, 2008 - Sep, 2010

    Research Method for Managers

    Professional Management

    E-Business

    Financial Management

    Intercultural management

    Strategic thinking

    Business Ethics

    International Marketing

    International Business Law

    Strategic Management

    Business Statistics

    HR Management

    Analysing Financial Statements

    Advertising & Communication

    Corporate Finance I

    Organizational Development

    Supply Chain Management

    US Management & Leadership

  • Business, Master of Science in Management, ISEG Business School (Paris, France)

    Sep, 2005 - Aug, 2010

    Sales & Marketing

    Marketing, Communication & Media

    Accounting & Financial controlling

    Finance & Financial Markets

    Business Law

    Information Technology

    Management techniques

Awards

Awards

  • Australian Mobies Award , The Mobies (Australia)

    Awarded on:

    Awarded for the 'Wake Up and Smell the Vegemite' campaign (JWT/AppCast collaboration), delivered while at Alpha Salmon.

Interests

Interests

  • Citizenship

    AustraliaFrance
  • Music

    GuitarPianoDrums
  • Activities

    DIY