John Bogaardt
Chief Actuary at WCF Insurance
Sandy, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bogaardt is a seasoned property & casualty actuary with over a decade of experience shaping pricing, reserving, and profitability across commercial and personal lines. Currently Chief Actuary at WCF Insurance after rising through VP and chief roles, he blends technical rigor from a UCLA applied math background with hands-on leadership in rate-making and portfolio performance. His career spans major insurers and consulting, including international exposure to UK motor pricing at Zurich and pension valuations early on, giving him a rare mix of product, risk, and legacy-liability perspective. Known for translating complex analytics into actionable strategy, he drives disciplined underwriting decisions while fostering cross-functional collaboration between actuarial, underwriting, and finance teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (39)
holoviews10
python10
pandas10
scikit-learn10
jupyter9
data-science9
matplotlib9
data-structure9
conda9
sparse-matrix9
plotly9
excel9
hvplot9
data-analysis9
holoviz9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
casact/chainladder-python
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Actuarial reserving in Python, triangle data manipulation, link ratios calculation, and IBNR models.
Contributions:78 releases, 84 reviews, 807 commits in 5 years 8 months
pythonreservingactuarialchainladderpandas
conda-forge/chainladder-feedstock
Nov 2020 - Mar 2026
A conda-smithy repository for chainladder.
Contributions:28 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 years 4 months
conda
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