Caesar Balona
Head Risk Intelligence & Engineering at Old Mutual Insure
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolCaesar Balona is a qualified actuary (FASSA) and engineering-led risk leader with eight years’ experience modernising governance, risk, compliance and actuarial functions through data science, AI and automation. As Head: Risk Intelligence & Engineering at Old Mutual Insure he reports to the CRO and Chief Actuary, leads cross-functional teams to shift the 2nd line from manual oversight to predictive, automated controls, and serves as the independent validator for all operational AI and advanced-analytics models. He has built proprietary geospatial platforms and drives commercial and internal climate strategy, blending catastrophe and physical climate modelling with product design and adaptation partnerships. A published thought leader (British Actuarial Journal) and award-winning researcher (Geoffrey Heywood Prize for ActuaryGPT), he combines hands-on programming passion with actuarial rigour to turn complex climate and model risk into practical, auditable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Actuarial Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Actuarial Science at University of the Witwatersrand
English
Github Skills (3)
python7
pandas7
scikit-learn7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
casact/tryangle
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 8 months
cbalona/reinsurance
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 20 days
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