Roy C.
HK–Paris Tech Builder | Founder @ Tricoté | Data & AI Advisory
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Work experience
Founder & Lead Consultant
Tricote Advisory
Jun 2025 - Present
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
• Cross-border consultancy on UX, data strategy, and AI adoption for Web3 and fintech organizations • Delivering executive training to help teams understand and apply cloud, data, and AI in regulated environments
University Lecturer
ESCP Business School
Mar 2025 - Present
1 year 8 months
Paris, France
• Teaching Master’s students in the Big Data & Business Analytics program about cloud, data, and AI • Guiding students through real-world cases, applied frameworks, and hands-on technical exercises • Last course: Unlocking Enterprise AI — a course focused on demonstrating how data and AI create enterprise-scale innovation using Snowflake and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods to develop AI-powered business intelligence(BI) tools
Senior Product Designer
Snowflake
May 2024 - May 2025
1 year 1 month
• Designed end-to-end product experiences for AI and data engineering workloads, enabling users to build, deploy, and operationalize AI applications directly within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
Principal Product Designer
DataCamp
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
10 months
London, UK
• Responsible for a new product, DataLab, a cloud-based data science notebook powered with AI
Senior Product Designer
Microsoft
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 2 months
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
• Microsoft Search Assistant and Intelligence Team (MSAI) • Designing search experiences for Teams at Office 365
Senior User Experience Designer
Alibaba Group
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 4 months
Hong Kong / Hangzhou
• User experience of Alibaba’s inaugural virtual bank of Hong Kong • Product design for improving Alibaba situational finance for synergy with Alipay • Conducting researches on local user behaviour for consumer expectation alignment
UX Designer
DBS Bank
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
2 years 6 months
Hong Kong / Singapore
• Product design ranging from investment and deposit, to insurance and loan • Leading user researches, data analyses for identifying customer insights • Gatekeeping the regional UX alignment and localisation
Innovation Developer
AGDelta
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
2 years 5 months
Hong Kong / Singapore
• Creating trading platforms for clients including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan & BNP Paribas • Collaborating closely with Engineering teams for creating prototypes
Instructional Assistant
HKUST
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 2 months
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Business Analyst
iClick Interactive Asia Limited
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
6 months
Fellow, Talent Meets Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
2 months
Education
ESCP Business School
Master of Science in Big Data and Business Analytics
2021 - 2022
1 year 1 month
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Engineering
2009 - 2013
4 years 1 month
Tsinghua University
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology
2011 - 2011
1 month
Licenses & certifications
From Users to Builders: Transform Yourself for the Age of AI
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