Engineering leader building the systems underwriters actually use.

Experience

1. Feb 2024 — Present

   Acrisure

   1. Aug 2025 — Present

      Sr. Manager, Underwriting Systems

      • Manage four internal engineers and direct a four-person forward-deployed team from our platform vendor, running one roadmap across two reporting lines.
      • Own the monolith API I built — the system of record for rating and integrations across internal and external systems.
      • Serve as the translation layer between underwriting, actuarial, business leadership, and platform engineering; the person who turns a meeting into a spec and a spec into code.
      • Make the key design decisions for how business workflow is implemented in the new policy admin system — often defining the process itself alongside underwriters before it can be built.
      • Drive the transition of multiple MGA verticals from legacy policy admin systems onto a modern, shared platform — unifying them on a single database and accounting ecosystem and aligning policy status, binding, and issuance across the book.
   2. Feb 2024 — Aug 2025

      Backend Team Lead

      • Led a backend team of 2–3 engineers and kicked off the underwriting platform modernization effort that became our current policy admin program.
      • Architected the first generation of our raters, workflow system, and integration surface — now owned at platform scale.
      • Translated underwriting and business requirements into durable backend services, establishing patterns still used today.
      • Promoted to Sr. Manager after expanding scope beyond the original team charter.
2. Sep 2021 — Jan 2024

   Koffie Financial

   1. May 2022 — Jan 2024

      Backend Services Team Lead

      • Led the backend team powering a commercial insurance platform, partnering daily with underwriting, actuarial, product, and compliance.
      • Built a full policy administration system from scratch — quoting, binding, issuance, endorsements, and the data model under all of it.
      • Replaced a vendor-built Excel rater with a Python rater on a custom DSL, moving rating logic into version control and giving business users a readable, auditable model they could contribute to.
      • Established CI/CD, testing, and documentation practices the team still runs on; mentored engineers through the shift from scripts to services.
   2. Sep 2021 — Jun 2022

      Software Engineer

      • Shipped early backend services for the platform and helped set the technical direction that carried into my time as team lead.
      • Built close working relationships with underwriting and product — the foundation for every later leadership role.
3. Jun 2017 — Sep 2021

   AM Best

   1. Dec 2019 — Sep 2021

      Quantitative Analyst II

      • Developed and maintained a Python analytical package housing the capital adequacy model, projection model, and supporting credit-rating tooling used by the Quantitative Analysis Team.
      • Designed database schemas and supporting objects for the team's analytical and reporting pipelines.
      • Contributed to a Vue.js SPA and Django REST API serving internal analysts and external clients.
      • Led design and implementation of CI/CD on Azure DevOps — the first formal deployment pipeline the team ran.
   2. Jun 2018 — Dec 2019

      Quantitative Analyst

      • Built out new capabilities on the quantitative toolkit used across the ratings organization.
      • Deepened the insurance-sector foundation that shapes how I build software today.
   3. Jun 2017 — Jun 2018

      Associate Analyst

      • Converted a suite of Excel/VBA models into Python and consolidated multiple standalone models into a single maintainable codebase.
      • First exposure to treating insurance models as software — version-controlled, testable, reviewable.