Laurent Vincentelli

Digital & AI Platforms Lead, Refounder

I have spent 15+ years building and scaling the platform layer that sits between raw compute and the people who need to use it. Currently Engagement Manager at Deloitte and Refounder at Minsys.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentvincentelli/ | Minsys: https://minsys.xyz/

Career Timeline

Scaling a multi-dimensional career path towards a T-shaped profile with alternative streams (entrepreneurship and side ventures).

Corporate Journey

Deloitte — Engagement Manager (2023 — Present). Leading Digital & AI Platform engagements (FSI, Telco) through 4 pillars: Client Relationship Management, Financial Management, Team Leadership, and Flow & Delivery Oversight.
IBM — Senior Manager (2019 — 2023). Steered the delivery and adoption of Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for the Payments Industry, Telcos and Transportation. Bridging Technical Teams with Senior Leadership.
Accenture — Manager (2018 — 2019). Led the design and delivery of a retailer's Internal Developer Platform, supporting 300+ engineers across E-Commerce, Supply Chain, and Loyalty Product Squads.
OVH Cloud — Cloud Solutions Architect (2017 — 2018). Designed GDPR (EU) 2016/679 Compliant Cloud Architecture Patterns for Financial and Public-Sector clients. Led Pre-Sales Engineering for Cloud Platform (PaaS) adoption.
Capgemini — Senior Managing Consultant (2015 — 2016). Co-delivered a PaaS platform for mission-critical embedded systems for a Defence and Space programme in a classified environment.
Cognizant — Senior Consultant (2011 — 2015). Co-built and managed Cloud Platforms (IaaS, PaaS, CaaS) introducing Agile, DevOps and SRE practices across transformation programmes in Banking and Telecoms.
GreenSaaS (Fiducial Cloud) — Head of Cloud Engineering (2008 — 2011). One of the first cloud platform providers in France. Designed and built multi-tenant infrastructures from the ground up. Acquired by Fiducial Group.

Entrepreneurial Journey

Minsys — Refounder (2026 — Present). Venture Building Micro-PE firm. Rewiring Main Street with high-multiple, next-gen business models. Website: https://minsys.xyz/
WorkshopThinking LLP — Founding Partner, LP (2020 — Present). (Re)Thinking Digital & AI, Collaboratively: high-intensity, practical workshops for Main Street Business Leaders.
Five Forces LLP — Founding Partner, LP (2019 — Present). Actionable Competitive Intelligence for Main Street: mapping how rivals leverage Digital & AI to disrupt markets.
Turbulences Engineering LLC — Co-Founder (2016 — 2018). Mothballed. A chaos engineering platform for SMBs, proactively stress-testing infrastructure and building resilience.
Zeste LTS Systems LTD — Co-Founder (2014 — 2018). Mothballed. A SecOps platform protecting Main Street Businesses with seamless observability and automated countermeasures.
CloudLifters SARL — Founder (2011 — 2015). Exited via M&A at 7x EBITDA. Cloud migration platform, lift-and-shift only.
minsys.io — Founder (2010). "Minimally Viable Systems" — the prologue of the micro-entrepreneurial journey, now refounded as Minsys.

Skills & Expertise

Hard skills built over 15+ years. Soft skills forged across 30+ engagements.

Hard Skills — Technologies & Flow

Digital & AI Platform as a Product: Builds platforms with a roadmap, backlog, and real customers. Turns Internal Developer Platforms and Enterprise AI hubs from IT cost centres into business-velocity engines. Tags: Lean Budget, Roadmap & Backlog, Business Velocity, User Experience, Design Thinking, System Thinking.
Extended Enterprise & Ecosystem Management: API gateway architecture to ISV onboarding programmes that turn technology alliances into scalable, governed revenue channels. Tags: API Gateway, ISV Onboarding, Partner Ecosystems, Developer Portals, Revenue Channels, Ecosystem Governance.
Hybrid & Distributed Cloud (XaaS): Architects the cloud foundation across all major hyperscalers and on-premises. Greenfield cloud-native builds to sovereign hybrid patterns for regulated industries. Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes Ecosystem, GSLB, Federated Control Plane.
Software Engineering Practices: Embeds the culture and tooling that makes fast delivery safe by default: zero-trust security, observable systems, CI/CD pipelines, event-driven architectures. Disciplines: DevSecOps, SRE, MLOps, FinOps, API-first, Microservices.
Frameworks & Methodologies: SAFe, Kanban, Scrum (PSM, PSPO), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, TOGAF, Team Topologies, OKR, Value Stream Mapping.

Soft Skills — Leadership & Outcomes

Executive & Stakeholder Communication: Bridges technical depth and executive language. Equal fluency in a boardroom and a sprint review. Competencies: C-Suite Communication, Executive Presence, Technical Storytelling, Stakeholder Management.
Team Leadership & Talent Development: Builds, mentors, and scales high-performing cross-functional engineering teams around Lean and Agile delivery cultures. Competencies: Team Building, Mentoring, Cross-functional Teams, Lean Culture, Agile Delivery.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Alignment: Drives consensus across engineering, product, legal, compliance, and commercial stakeholders without losing delivery momentum.
Negotiation & Conflict Resolution: Manages competing priorities across multi-vendor, multi-squad environments while preserving partner and client relationships.
Entrepreneurial Mindset & Ownership: Re-founder. Intrapreneur. Builds internal platforms as ventures, not projects. Zero-to-one ambiguity tolerance.

Case Studies & Achievements

Impact in Action: Detailed insights into pivotal professional engagements that define the track record.

Open Banking Platform (EU — Fintech): Built the partner and developer portal for a major EU retail bank. Compressed time-to-first-API-call by 90% (3 weeks to 2 days). Launched 30+ fintech partners on day one — the bank's largest partner cohort ever.
The AI Factory (Global Conglomerate — Energy & Utilities): Designed and delivered the missing platform layers for a global conglomerate's AI factory. Transformed raw GPU infrastructure into a self-service AI marketplace with unified governance and FinOps. 98% reduction in AI service provisioning time.
Insurance-as-a-Service Platform (North America — Insurtech): Transformed a Tier-1 carrier's stalled hyperscaler investment into a live API ecosystem. Cut partner onboarding from 14 weeks to under 3 weeks. Cleared 140+ regulatory controls with zero findings.
Internal Developer Platform (EMEA — Telecom): Delivered a self-service IDP for a major EMEA telco. Reduced environment provisioning from 18 days to 4 hours. Recovered $9M/year in lost productivity. 500+ voluntary adopters. 3x deployment frequency increase.

Laurent Vincentelli — Digital & AI Platforms Lead, Refounder

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentvincentelli/ | Minsys: https://minsys.xyz/ | Portfolio: https://laurent.vincentelli.pro/