I am the Chief Architect at Verisk, an S&P 500 company serving the insurance industry. I have over 25 years of experience working in Data & Analytics. I am responsible for my company's enterprise-wide R&D platform for AI, ML, analytics, and BI, used by Data Scientists and Actuaries working with ...more

I am the Chief Architect at Verisk, an S&P 500 company serving the insurance industry. I have over 25 years of experience working in Data & Analytics. I am responsible for my company's enterprise-wide R&D platform for AI, ML, analytics, and BI, used by Data Scientists and Actuaries working with Claims, Underwriting, Marketing, and other 2nd and 3rd party data sets. I have experience with: * Snowflake, Databricks, Iceberg storage * Clean rooms, privacy enhancing technology * AWS services, esp compute services * Data storage including S3, Parquet, Apache Iceberg, Relational RDBMS (Redshift, Postgres, MariaDB, Aurora), Snowflake; graph dbs including Neo4j, AWS Neptune; NoSQL including MongoDB, DocumentDB * Generative AI tools and LLMs including ChatGPT/InstructGPT, AWS Bedrock platform (Titan, AI21 Labs, Anthropic/Claude, Stable Diffision) * Analytical tools and platforms including Python, R, Databricks, JupyterLabs/Notebooks * BI Tools including Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, Sisense * Data Governance tools including Cyral * Data enrichment and cleansing, including tools for geocoding (MelissaData), Entity Resolution (Senzing) * 3rd Party Datasets including Bureaus and Data Vendors (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, InfoUSA, Neustar), Alternative Data (incl Yelp, Twitter) * Experienced with data consortia * Experienced with systems for securely sharing data, including clean rooms, secure multi-party computation (MPC), and tokenization * Developed secure, homomorphically encrypted computing systems for private computing. Familiar with a range of related topics including differential privacy, k-anonymity, t-closeness, and l-diversity. * Deep experience with consumer credit card and banking data, esp in understanding consumer behaviour * Web technologies (scaling, security, architecture and design)less