Martin Stanik
Group Head Of Digital & Technology at DEFEND INSURANCE GROUP
Auckland, Auckland, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Staník is a technology leader with 16+ years of experience aligning cloud-native engineering, architecture and data strategies to business and regulatory needs across insurance and finance. Currently Group Head of Digital & Technology at Defend Insurance Group, he blends hands-on software engineering and solution architecture with senior leadership to deliver scalable, secure and auditable platforms. Martin is pragmatic about innovation—knowing when to push for cloud and AI-driven change and when governance or simplification better protects long-term value. He has deep Microsoft/Azure and cloud platform experience from startups to large insurers, built a social-media analytics startup that exited to a US buyer, and frequently advises executive teams on complex tech and risk tradeoffs. Known for a calm, collaborative leadership style, he focuses on clarity over complexity to turn strategy into sustainable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Computer Science at VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceTwo semesters of PhD program, Information Technology, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Two semesters of PhD program, Information Technology, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Github Skills (28)
wordpress10
ecommerce9
lookup9
woocommerce9
office-js9
office-addin9
autocomplete9
php9
finder8
verification8
verify8
twitter-streaming-api8
tweetinvi7
validation7
twitter-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stenly311/Ariane
Jul 2018 - Apr 2023
Simple to use, reliable to run and fast to start with utility for process orchestration and execution measuring. Standalone application written in WPF for easier maintaining multiple console applications output, running simultaneously in the background, under the one user interface window.
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 10 months
user-interfacedotnetwindowsorchestrationconsole
addynz/Address-Lookup
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Address finder for websites to verify New Zealand addresses at the point of capture. Code samples are provided for fast and effective integration. Lightweight open source third party libraries are used for calling Addy’s free address finder API. Visit https://www.addysolutions.com/ for documentation and free address API access.
Contributions:6 releases, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
callingpostcode-validationapi-accessaddress-verificationfinder
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