Engineering professionals in Insurance
With three engineers from Chubb and two from American Family Insurance, this insurance group centers on policy administration, claims and underwriting systems, and four of them name Guidewire or Duck Creek work; the rest are at Liberty Mutual Insurance, Arch Insurance Group Inc., KW Specialty Insurance Company, Travelers and Bamboo Insurance. A call fits decisions on core system modernization, claims platforms or underwriting reliability.
Professionals to explore
Arunkumar Subramanian Natarajan
LinkedInExperience: Director, Technical Engineering - Personal Lines Policy Administration · American Family Insurance
Guidewire PolicyCenter engineering and delivery for personal lines is the work Arunkumar Subramanian Natarajan leads as Director, Technical Engineering - Personal Lines Policy Administration at American Family Insurance since 2021. Natarajan was Associate Director - Projects (2018–2021) and Lead Product Consultant (2016–2017) at Cognizant, a fit for questions on PolicyCenter delivery and personal lines policy systems.
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Bharat V.
LinkedInExperience: VP, Commercial Insurance IT - Head of Engineering for CI Middle Market and Risk Engineering · Chubb
Bharat V. has been VP, Commercial Insurance IT - Head of Engineering for CI Middle Market and Risk Engineering at Chubb since 2022, owning a portfolio of 50+ applications. Bharat V. also worked on Trupay, a pay-as-you-go workers comp product, at Split Limit Studios (2018–2021), was Director, Consulting at CGI (2013–2018) and held vice president and product management roles at Agencyport Software (2004–2013).
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Jayanta Das
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Engineering · Liberty Mutual Insurance
Global Risk Solutions at Liberty Mutual Insurance is where Jayanta Das has been Director Of Engineering since 2021, and was Assistant Vice President (2021) and Program Manager Technology Supervisor (2010–2021) at Genpact. Das also worked as Technical Project Lead, InsurTech at CSC (2004–2010) and names AI, cloud, analytics, agile delivery and risktech as focus areas, a fit for commercial insurance software questions.
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John Zamichieli
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · KW Specialty Insurance Company
KW Specialty Insurance Company is where John Zamichieli has held each of these titles: Director of Software Engineering since 2025, Senior Solution Architect (2023–2025), Senior Software Engineer (2022–2024), Policy Administration Consultant (2013–2019) and Principal Consultant (2006–2012). Zamichieli describes translating business requirements into implementation solutions, a fit for policy administration questions.
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Muhammad Salman Javaid
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Global Underwriting Engineering Lead Duck Creek SRE Lead · Chubb
Duck Creek SRE is part of Muhammad Salman Javaid's current Chubb title, Vice President - Global Underwriting Engineering Lead Duck Creek SRE Lead since 2025, with Vice President - Global Underwriting Engineering Lead (2024–2025), Vice President - Engineering Lead (2023–2024) and Assistant Vice President - Engineering Management (2019–2021) roles there. Javaid describes overseeing design and delivery of cloud and web applications for insurance.
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Pankaj Gursahaney
LinkedInExperience: Director Software Engineering · Arch Insurance Group Inc.
Professional liability is the line Pankaj Gursahaney works on as Director Software Engineering at Arch Insurance Group Inc. since 2025, with Software Engineering Manager (2023–2025), Digital Transformation- Software Development Manager Agile Program Manager (2021–2022) and Lead Software Engineer (2019–2021) roles there. Gursahaney fits questions on digital transformation of professional liability systems.
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Sanket Pandya
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Engineering · American Family Insurance
The Guidewire Cloud Platform is a focus Sanket Pandya names, and Guidewire appears across Pandya's roles: a Guidewire suite integration lead role at PwC (2013–2015), Technical Delivery Lead - Guidewire Solutions at American Family Insurance (2015–2021) and Director - Application Development (Guidewire Solutions) at Horace Mann (2021–2022). Since 2022, Pandya has been Senior Manager, Engineering at American Family Insurance.
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Shekhar Kakarla
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering NA claims · Chubb
Shekhar Kakarla has been Head of Engineering NA claims at Chubb since 2026 and was Vice President (2021–2026) and AVP Software Engineering (2015–2021) at AIG. Kakarla also held Client Partner at Mphasis (2012–2015) and Lead Technical Architect at FedEx (2004–2010), so suits questions on claims system engineering and on software delivery across AIG and Chubb.
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Syed Abuthahir Shajahan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Bamboo Insurance
Bamboo Insurance has had Syed Abuthahir Shajahan as Senior Director of Engineering since 2026, after Director of Engineering there (2025–2026); Shajahan was also Guidewire Tech Lead Solution Architect at Travelers (2025). Capgemini roles include Portfolio Manager (2022–2025) and Senior Manager (2019–2021), and Shajahan names Guidewire, cloud modernization and generative AI as focus areas.
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Utkal Nayak
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Travelers
Utkal Nayak has been Director of Software Engineering at Travelers since 2015 and describes directing the architecture and development of a policy administration system there. Nayak was Agile Program Manager at Syntel (2013–2015) and held Project Manager (2008–2013) and Technology Lead (2004–2008) roles at Infosys, a fit for questions on policy administration architecture.
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Choose the right perspective
Guidewire policy administration questions fit Arunkumar Subramanian Natarajan, Sanket Pandya and Syed Abuthahir Shajahan, and Duck Creek and underwriting reliability fit Muhammad Salman Javaid. Claims engineering fits Shekhar Kakarla and commercial lines application portfolios fit Bharat V., while Jayanta Das, Pankaj Gursahaney, John Zamichieli and Utkal Nayak cover software engineering at Liberty Mutual Insurance, Arch Insurance Group Inc., KW Specialty Insurance Company and Travelers.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What goes wrong most often when moving a policy administration system such as Guidewire or Duck Creek to the cloud?
- 02How do insurance engineering teams keep rating, underwriting and claims systems consistent when products vary by state?
- 03Which reliability practices matter most for claims and underwriting systems during catastrophe events?
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