Jerry Ding
Senior Consultant, Decision Science at Travelers
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Ding is a Senior Consultant in Decision Science with 11 years of analytic and engineering experience, blending a triple-major background in Data Science, Economics, and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with military discipline from service in the Army National Guard. Based in Pittsburgh, he specializes in SQL/R data engineering, ETL, explanatory modeling, and dashboarding to drive portfolio management and pricing decisions for specialty insurance lines. Jerry pairs hands-on product analytics and MicroStrategy dashboard ownership with practical modeling work—he’s delivered seasonality and issuance-driver analyses and calculated rate impacts used for regulatory filings. Outside of insurance, he contributes to open-source AI tooling as a back-end and database engineer on the popular continuedev/continue project, improving search, indexing, and data integrity for code-assistant workflows. He balances technical rigor with creative problem-solving and an appetite for ambitious personal projects, often prototyping AI ideas beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science, Economics, and Environmental Studies, Certificate (minor) in Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science, Economics, and Environmental Studies, Certificate (minor) in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chinese, French, English
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
typescripts10
full-text-search10
sqlite10
indexing10
sql10
database-design10
typescript-types10
openai9
llm8
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developer-tools7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
continuedev/continue
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
⏩ Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:4 issues in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily focused on improving the back-end infrastructure and data management aspects of the project. Their contributions included escaping query strings for full-text search, adding uniqueness constraints to database tables, and fixing inconsistencies in the tag catalog. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary requirements during indexing and handled duplicate entries. These changes collectively enhance the data retrieval, integrity, and efficiency of the codebase indexing and search functionalities.
aichatgptcopilotdeveloper-toolsintellij
EchoExplorer/EchoGame
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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