Matt Roop
Account Executive - Financial Institutions P&C at Travelers
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolMatt Roop is a seasoned insurance professional with 19 years’ experience specializing in commercial and recreational marine risks, now serving as Account Executive for Financial Institutions P&C at Travelers. He brings deep underwriting and brokerage expertise across complex marine classes—yacht clubs, marinas, hull and P&I, charter operations, ship repairers, terminal operators and pollution liability—paired with a track record placing hard-to-bind accounts. Comfortable on both the wholesale and retail sides, he’s held underwriting roles at Burns & Wilcox and Risk Placement Services and has also driven revenue and hiring as a national sales recruiter. Based in the Twin Cities, he blends technical product knowledge with field-level sales instincts and a client-first advisory style. Notably, his background combines specialty underwriting depth with hands-on recruiting and sales leadership, making him adept at aligning market capacity with unusual or high-exposure risks.
19 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership, Business, Valedictorian, Leadership, Business, Valedictorian at Ecclesia College
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Github Skills (64)
editors10
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sql-parser10
parser10
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python10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 246 commits, 116 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development of the SQL parser for the DataFusion project. Their work involved implementing support for various SQL features, including "searched" CASE expressions, table-valued functions, and the DISTINCT keyword. They refactored the code to improve maintainability, including simplifying the tokenization process and refactoring expression parsing. Additionally, they introduced and fixed parsing issues for different data types and operators.
lexerparserrustsqlbig-data
mozilla/addon-sdk
Apr 2010 - May 2013
DEPRECATED - The Add-on SDK repository.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the documentation viewer (cfx docs), enhancing its functionality and user experience. They implemented features to list modules on the package details page, improved the interactivity of clickable elements, and made modules with dashes in their names searchable. Additionally, the user addressed an issue related to exceptions in the server and added a more helpful error message for specific server interactions. Several bug fixes and minor improvements across the project are also observed.
add-onsdkabandoned
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