Louis Rossouw
Segment Head Of Research Analytics at Gen Re
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Rossouw is an actuary and analytics leader with 11+ years steering Research & Analytics for Gen Re’s life and health business across CUSAC territories, combining deep actuarial pricing, reserving and experience-monitoring expertise with practical data-science ambition. He has led regional actuarial functions from South Africa to ASEAN and India, developing innovative product pricing and severity-based health solutions while authoring industry papers and serving on committees. Louis applies advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance underwriting, onboarding and traditional experience analysis, and has been a primary investigator into COVID-19’s impact on life insurance portfolios. Comfortable both in technical implementation and strategic oversight, he also contributes to open-source backend and DevOps work (e.g., enhancements to the widely used LibreNMS project), reflecting a hands-on approach to building reliable systems that support actuarial decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
Post Graduatuate Actuarial Diploma, Actuarial Science, Post Graduatuate Actuarial Diploma, Actuarial Science at University of Cape TownHons. B.Com., Actuarial Science, Hons. B.Com., Actuarial Science at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans, German, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
snmp10
snmpd10
php10
network-monitoring10
mysql10
laravel-mix9
python9
laravel9
database-management9
bash5
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 24 PRs, 110 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Louis contributed to the Librenms project by enhancing the system's functionality and maintainability. Their work included adding features such as configurable timeouts for the Unix agent and the ability to use multiple poller groups. They also addressed existing issues, like fixing database connection logic and migrating to bulk inserts, and added support for new services. Additionally, the user implemented enhancements to the network map functionality.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
spinza/wind
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
WiND is a Web application for managing a database of wireless nodes.
Contributions:11 pushes, 13 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
windnodesweb-applicationwirelessdatabase
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