Freelance Consultant

Laurent
Grimard

AI & Data · Business Intelligence · Project Management
20+ years turning complex data into clear decisions

From banking-software veteran
to independent consultant

After 20 years building data platforms, AI pipelines and leading teams at Sopra Banking Software, I founded Trigones SRL in 2025 to bring that depth of experience directly to clients who need it.

My key strength? Bridging the gap between complex technical realities and clear business outcomes. Whether I'm modeling a Data Vault schema, defining a product backlog or demystifying an AI solution for a C-suite audience, I keep the business value front and centre.

I work mainly in Belgium and remotely, with a particular focus on financial institutions, although I am open to any industry where data matters.

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20+ Years of experience
10+ Major banking clients
PSM1 Scrum certified
C1 English proficiency

What I bring to your project

AI & Data Consultancy

From LLM integration to automated data pipelines, I help you identify the right AI/data strategy and implement it pragmatically — with a sharp focus on ROI and maintainability.

Business Intelligence & Data Architecture

Star Schema, Data Vault 2.0, Data Lake, Data Mesh — I design scalable architectures tailored to your reporting and analytics needs across Power BI, Qlik and beyond.

Project Management & Product Ownership

Certified PSM 1 and seasoned in Agile / SCRUM, I manage backlogs, roadmaps and cross-functional teams — keeping delivery on time while communicating progress clearly to all stakeholders.

Process & Test Automation

From ETL code generation to white-box test automation and CI/CD pipelines, I eliminate repetitive manual work so your teams can focus on high-value tasks.

Big Data Engineering

Kafka, Spark, Scala, AWS — I design and build distributed data platforms that handle large volumes with real-time or near-real-time performance requirements.

Technical Pre-sales & Advisory

I translate technical complexity into compelling business cases — supporting sales teams, writing RFP responses and presenting architectural proposals to executive audiences.

A track record built over two decades

2025 — Present

Founder & Freelance Consultant

Trigones SRL · Belgium

Founded Trigones SRL to provide independent AI & data consultancy. The company also develops AI-powered gaming human-simulator engines.

2023 — Present

Creator · Anbots

Complementary activity · Remote

Designed and commercially launched an automation software suite for video games, combining computer vision (OpenCV), OCR and behavioural simulation — now operating as a standalone licence-based product.

2021 — 2024

Big Data Specialist / Product Owner

Sopra Banking Software · Internal Data Mesh project

Led the adoption of a Data Mesh architecture enabling near-real-time data availability across business domains. Defined the tech stack (Snowflake, AWS), managed the product backlog, and delivered an end-to-end streaming pipeline with sub-500 ms latency (Kafka → Spark → MongoDB Atlas → Power BI).

2018 — 2021

BI Expert / Project Manager

Sopra Banking Software · Data Lake initiative

Designed a centralised Data Lake to break down data silos and support legal reporting. Delivered on time with only 3 % over budget thanks to automated code-generation tooling and a robust canonical data model (Oracle, NiFi).

2017

CI/CD Manager

Sopra Banking Software · Sparda Bank consortium (Germany)

Analysed and overhauled CI/CD workflows across a German banking consortium, introducing automation that significantly reduced build and deployment cycle times.

2004 — 2017

Developer → BI Analyst → Data Architect → Team Lead

Sopra Banking Software · Multiple banking clients

Progressed from developer (BI domain) to data architect and team leader on successive client engagements. Covered pre-sales, technical leadership, SCRUM master and project management roles across major financial institutions in Belgium and Europe.

Technologies & expertise areas

Data & BI

Power BIQlikBusiness Objects SAP BI / BAMetaBaseStar Schema Data Vault 2.0Data LakeData Mesh

Big Data & Cloud

KafkaSparkScalaNiFi Hadoop / HBaseAWSMongoDB Snowflake

Databases

OraclePostgreSQLMySQL MongoDBHadoop

Development

PythonJavaScala JavaScriptPerlVBA HTML / CSSAutoIt

DevOps & CI/CD

GitLab CI/CDDockerHelm Gradle

AI & Automation

LLMsOpenCVOCR (UWP) Human behaviour simulationTest automation Web automation

Management

Agile / SCRUMPSM 1 certifiedJira ConfluenceKanbanBacklog managementPre-sales

Languages

French — NativeEnglish — C1 FluentDutch — Basic

Let's work together

Available for new assignments — feel free to reach out to discuss your project.