Born on 2 August 1967, Yannick Cadin is discovering programming on machines such as the ZX81the Canon X-07 and theAmstrad CPC 664He went on to study computer science at secondary school, but was bored by the low standard of teaching. In the final year of high school, a classmate introduced him to the small studio. Rainbow Productionwhere Yannick meets someone looking for a programmer for the team developing a new publisher's first game.

He then worked with the graphic designer Patrick Daher and screenwriter Alexandre Bonan about the game Zombi (1986), inspired by the 1978 horror film of the same name, at first in his spare time, then leaving school to become one of the first employees ofUbi Soft He sorted through the game proposals while continuing work on Zombi. Adding a touch of action to the graphic adventure game, the latter was a success and led to two other games inspired by films on which Yannick was also a designer, Manhattan 95 (1987, based on New York 1997) and Howling (1988).

At the same time, he helped other programmers with copy protection, for example, and produced all the graphics functions for the Master of Souls (1988) for its author, Éric Doireaucould code it in a high-level language. The latter recommended him for the MS-DOS port of his Teenage Queen (1988) on behalf ofERE Informatique. In 1988, Yannick Cadin turned away from the world of video games to take an interest in 'professional' computing, holding a number of positions in various companies, setting up or helping to set up other companies, and finally founding his own IT services company in 1997, Kommandorenamed Imp in 2002 and is still in business.