Mick Cooney
Co-Founder And CTO at Describe Data
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolMick Cooney is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of experience applying programming, applied statistics, machine learning and NLP to risk analysis across insurance and capital markets. He leads Describe Data to deliver pragmatic, production-ready tools that help underwriters and actuaries evaluate complex individual and portfolio-level risks. His background spans quantitative finance, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, survival analysis and Monte Carlo techniques, honed at hedge, advisory and insurer firms where he translated research into operational systems and dashboards. He’s comfortable across the stack—from data pipelines and geospatial modelling to model explainability—and often pairs technical solutions with hands-on actuarial collaboration. Based in Dublin, Mick holds a PhD in Computational Stochastic Mathematics and a MSc in High Performance Computing, which underpin his focus on performant, auditable models. An understated strength is his long track record of converting academic methods into usable business tools that drive decision-making under uncertainty.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Stochastic Mathematics, PhD, Computational Stochastic Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (58)
r-package10
data-science10
xts10
tidyverse9
quantmod9
dplyr9
jags9
monte-carlo9
stan8
text-mining8
financial-data8
bayesian-data-analysis8
loss8
bayesian8
insurance8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
describe-data/course_r_actuaries
Feb 2019 - Aug 2024
This repo contains all the materials needed for the Describe data "R for Actuaries" course
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
kaybenleroll/sysadmin_files
Apr 2019 - Jan 2026
This files contains a bunch of random files, configs and so on for my various sysadmin work
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
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