Summary
Douglas Raffle is an accomplished statistician and data science leader with 11 years of experience building production ML and analytics solutions across insurance and healthcare domains from Hartford, CT. As AVP leading Employee Benefits Data Science, AI & Analytics, he has driven large-scale GenAI initiatives—engineering an enterprise medical-record summarization pipeline projected to deliver over $5M in annual expense savings—and led cross-functional teams to productionize OCR, pre-processing, and summarization workflows. He has owned pricing and risk models that allocate billions in premium, matured model lifecycle practices including bias detection, and scaled consulting teams that modernized actuarial workflows. Equally comfortable in hands-on modeling, software engineering, and training, Douglas has a track record of rapid prototyping (proof-of-concept to integrated test in weeks) and building repeatable deployment infrastructure. Outside work he teaches motorcycle safety as a certified RiderCoach, reflecting a pragmatic, people-focused coaching style that he also applies to mentoring data teams and upskilling actuarial partners.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Minor in Mathematics at PennWest California
Master of Science (M.S.) Statistics, Master of Science (M.S.) Statistics at West Virginia University