Summary
Zann St Pierre is a Principal UX Engineer with over 20 years of full-stack web development experience, currently shaping AI-driven UX and design systems at Microsoft from Cairns, Australia. He blends strong design sensibilities with deep engineering chops—shipping React-based design systems, custom Sketch/Figma tooling, and production-grade image/video compression and CI/CD pipelines. A seasoned product builder, he bootstrapped and scaled three Shopify carrier-shipping apps on AWS Lambda that served thousands of merchants and were acquired after demonstrating reliable Black Friday-scale performance. Zann has a long history of community leadership in the Australian design scene, notably through Australian Infront, and spends much of his work pushing generative AI and prompt engineering into practical UI automation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Communication Design, Communication Design, Bachelor of Communication Design, Communication Design at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Bachelor of Communication Design, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Communication Design, Graphic Design at James Cook University