Summary
Yannick Neff is a seasoned technology executive and cloud infrastructure specialist with nine years of senior experience, currently serving as Group Chief Technology Officer at Hermès and teaching cloud architecture at EPITA. He has led large-scale cloud and datacenter transformations across banking and industry—most recently driving global infrastructure, security, and FinOps programs at SUEZ and Société Générale. Yannick combines product-minded leadership (building internal cloud platforms, APIs and managed services) with hands-on technical depth in multi-cloud, IaC, Vault/IAM, Kubernetes and observability. He has a track record of organizing product-based teams, migrating critical workloads to hyperscalers and sovereign clouds, and embedding green-by-design and FinOps practices. As an educator since 2010, he translates enterprise lessons into practical courses on architecture and cloud operations, mentoring the next generation of engineers. Beyond titles, he pairs strategic governance skills with pragmatic engineering—often authoring or enabling reusable platform components that accelerate cloud adoption enterprise-wide.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme EPITA SIGL, Diplôme EPITA SIGL at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique