10 GEICO engineering leaders
Vincent Chen, Senior Director, Engineering at GEICO, is one of ten GEICO engineering leaders listed here, alongside people who hold senior director and director of engineering roles in software and platform work at the company. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at GEICO from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Avinash Sharma
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · GEICO
Avinash Sharma has been Senior Director, Engineering at GEICO since August 2025 and was Director, Engineering there from December 2022 to July 2025. Avinash Sharma was Associate Director, Physical Retail Engineering at Wayfair from 2021 to 2022 and Engineering Leader at Walmart Global Tech from 2015 to 2021.
Geping Chen
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · GEICO
Geping Chen has been Senior Director, Engineering at GEICO since October 2021. Geping Chen was Director, Data Engineering at Capital One from 2016 to 2021, Head of Data, Ping An Financial Services (part of Ping An Insurance Group) at PING AN from 2013 to 2016, and Director, Industry Consulting at Teradata from 2010 to 2013.
Jeremy Yates
LinkedInExperience: Director, Engineering · GEICO
Jeremy Yates has been Director, Engineering at GEICO since January 2025. Jeremy Yates was Engineering & Architecture Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2022 to 2025, Group Head, SVP, Site Reliability Engineering at Yodlee from 2021 to 2022, and Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering at Yodlee from 2020 to 2021.
Nishan Patel
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · GEICO
Nishan Patel has been Senior Director of Engineering at GEICO since October 2022 and describes leading operations of 11 teams with more than 90 engineers. Nishan Patel was Senior Manager of Engineering, Cloud Products and Services at GEICO from 2020 to 2022 and Manager of Engineering there from 2014 to 2019.
Peter Tang
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · GEICO
Peter Tang has been Director of Engineering at GEICO since February 2024. Peter Tang held Engineering & Product Leadership roles at Instabase from 2021 to 2024 and at Facebook from 2016 to 2021, and describes shaping products and tools for tens of thousands of internal users.
Puneet Chopra
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director of Engineering · GEICO
Puneet Chopra has been Sr Director of Engineering at GEICO since December 2024 and describes building a scalable digital experience platform that drives multi-channel sales initiatives. Puneet Chopra was Director of Software Development at Audible from 2022 to 2025 and Director of Software Engineering at Green Dot Corporation from 2014 to 2022.
Rajeev Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · GEICO
Rajeev Kumar has been Director of Engineering at GEICO since October 2022 and was Director of Engineering - Claims there from 2021 to 2022. Rajeev Kumar was Software Engineering Manager at GEICO from 2017 to 2021 and Technical Architect, Performance and Integration SME there from 2005 to 2017, and the profile headline names Guidewire, claims, Salesforce, CRM and DevOps.
Siva Kalva
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · GEICO Tech
Siva Kalva has been Senior Director of Engineering at GEICO Tech since May 2023 and describes running platform engineering teams there. Siva Kalva was Engineering Leader @ Google Object Storage at Google from 2019 to 2023, Engineering Manager at Uber from 2014 to 2019, and Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft from 2011 to 2014.
Vincent Chen
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Engineering · GEICO
Vincent Chen has been Senior Director, Engineering at GEICO since December 2024 and describes leading engineering teams that build the next generation of the underwriting platform for GEICO. Vincent Chen was Head of Engineering, Trading Platform at Robinhood from 2021 to 2024 and Head of Engineering, Media & Distribution at Airbnb from 2019 to 2021.
Wes Warnick
LinkedInExperience: Director, Engineering · GEICO
Wes Warnick has been Director, Engineering at GEICO since March 2024, and the profile headline reads Director, Physical Damage Claims Engineering. Wes Warnick was Senior Software Engineering Manager at GEICO from 2019 to 2024, Manager Software Engineering there from 2013 to 2019, and System Analyst Engineer there from 2002 to 2013.
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- 01What did you change first when you took on your current engineering role, and why?
- 02How do you decide when to rebuild a platform and when to keep improving the one you have?
- 03What has your own work taught you about growing engineering teams while keeping delivery steady?
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