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Renaud Yasin
About

Renaud Yasin

Product Owner · Applied-AI Delivery · Houston, TX

A Houston-based delivery leader who owns applied-AI systems from brief to production, with 12+ years owning the full lifecycle of enterprise software across banking, financial crimes, telecom, and environmental services. On my own time I set the brief for applied-AI systems and build them through Claude, to learn where the technology earns its keep and to practice the harder discipline of proving it works. My north star: outcomes, not output. AI is the new paintbrush; what I bring is the part it can’t, knowing when the output is good enough to ship.

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How I build

Author the brief, hold the line on good

I'm an early, hands-on adopter of generative AI, and I ship real applications with Claude: systems that carry live users, evaluation harnesses, and a monthly cost budget, not weekend demos. Here is how the work splits. I author the product brief and the acceptance criteria; Claude does much of the implementation, inside guardrails I set.

Those guardrails are the unglamorous ones: no future data leaks into a training window, every number on the page traces back to a source, and the thing has to be correct before it ships. That last part is where my judgment lives now, deciding what good means for a given system and holding the ship button until it's met.

Experience

The path so far

  1. Mar 2025 to Present

    Now

    Manager, Managed Services (MSP)

    Everforth Quinnox · Waste Management (Digital Sustainability) · Houston, TX

    • Own product and delivery direction for Waste Management’s Digital Sustainability portfolio: setting the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog by business value and operational risk, and balancing feature delivery against 24×7 production support.
    • Serve as primary product and engagement owner with the client: translate business goals into a prioritized roadmap and manage scope, change, staffing, and release decisions end to end.
    • Direct cross-functional, distributed delivery and operations teams through the SDLC and ITIL-based service management.
    • Drive continuous improvement across the portfolio (reduced P1/P2 incidents by ~25% and improved deployment frequency by 30%) and apply AI-assisted tools, including Claude, to accelerate code review, documentation, and operational workflows.

  2. May 2023 to Mar 2025

    Sr. Manager, Application Development (Financial Crimes Technology)

    Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

    • Owned a portfolio of three internal enterprise applications end to end (Internal Threat Analytics, Secure File Storage, and an Employee Coaching Portal) from concept and stakeholder needs through release and ongoing support.
    • Owned the product roadmap and backlog, prioritizing features against business impact and regulatory risk; gathered requirements directly from compliance and investigation stakeholders and validated them through UAT before release.
    • Made build-vs-buy and architecture decisions (security, scalability, availability), building in-house where regulatory control and data sensitivity required it.
    • Sequenced delivery toward business outcomes (cut investigation cycle time by 35%) and coordinated production releases and post-release support.

  3. Feb 2021 to May 2023

    Manager, Application Development (Financial Crimes Technology)

    Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

    • Took the Internal Threat Analytics product from concept to production, leading a full-stack team through discovery, definition, and the SDLC to deliver REST APIs and web microservices.
    • Translated stakeholder needs into requirements and a prioritized backlog across Go, Python, Angular, and Next.js, mentoring the team on modern practices.
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) that improved delivery cadence from monthly to bi-weekly releases.
    • Oversaw product stability and compliance through disciplined change and incident management.

  4. Mar 2020 to Feb 2021

    IT Team Lead, Application Development

    Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

    • Shaped product roadmaps that aligned technical capability with business vision, making cybersecurity a differentiating capability.
    • Directed feature prioritization across security audits and customer requirements, balancing new functionality against risk.
    • Led cross-functional teams in adopting Agile and DevSecOps to accelerate time-to-market with iterative end-user feedback.

  5. Jun 2017 to Feb 2020

    IT Project Coordinator

    Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

    • Translated business objectives into clear requirements, user stories, and on-time, high-quality deliverables.
    • Drove the transition to an automated CI/CD pipeline, reducing manual testing and embedding automated security checks early in the lifecycle.
    • Embedded security protocols across the product lifecycle, aligning delivery with regulatory and organizational objectives.

  6. Jul 2016 to Jun 2017

    Business Systems Analyst

    Rogers Communications · Toronto, ON

    • Led gap and root-cause analysis to identify process inefficiencies and drive lasting improvements to system performance and user satisfaction.
    • Partnered with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and improve the end-to-end customer experience.

  7. May 2014 to Jul 2015

    Business Systems Analyst

    Assurant, Inc. · Miami, FL

    • Built automation scripts that eliminated manual data entry and materially improved processing speed and accuracy.
    • Served as key liaison between stakeholders and development teams, aligning objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
Capabilities

What I bring

What I Own

  • Product Spec & System Architecture
  • Evaluation & Calibration
  • Data Discipline (leakage / point-in-time)
  • Prompt & Context Engineering
  • The Ship / No-Ship Call

Stack I Build In (spec to ship)

  • Python
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • React / Next.js
  • Go
  • SQL
  • REST APIs & Microservices
  • RAG & Vector Search (pgvector)
  • Agents
  • Local LLMs
  • LightGBM & Time-Series ML

Cloud, Data & Infra

  • Vercel
  • Supabase
  • Postgres
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • OpenShift
  • Jenkins CI/CD
  • Git
  • DevSecOps

Delivery in Regulated Environments

  • End-to-End Product Ownership
  • Financial Crimes Domain
  • Compliance & Data Privacy
  • Point-in-Time Correctness & Auditability
  • 24×7 Operations (ITIL)
  • Agile / Scrum & SDLC
  • Security-by-Design

Education

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2012

  • B.S., Information Technology

    Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2007

Certifications

Certifications
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), 2019

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