Scott Macdonald
Head Of Insurance Pricing Systems at AXIS (AXIS Capital)
Greater Halifax Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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SeniorScott Macdonald is a senior software architect and Head of Insurance Pricing Systems with over 25 years of engineering experience and 18 years focused in reinsurance and insurance. He designs and leads high-performance, scalable pricing and modelling platforms, combining hands-on C#/C++ and cloud (Azure/AWS) engineering with deep domain expertise in catastrophe modelling and optimization. Known for solving the real problem, he blends systems-level thinking (HPC, MPI, ZMQ, Protobuf) with pragmatic product delivery and strong client-facing communication. His career spans technical leadership roles at AXIS, Analyze Re and Flagstone where he built configurable, high-throughput pricing engines and analytical tools. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, cross-team collaboration and translating complex actuarial needs into reliable, production-grade software. Based in Halifax, he pairs a rare mix of low-level performance tuning and enterprise-scale architecture.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
pymongo9
mongodb9
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mapper8
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jupyterlab-extension8
jupyterlab7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
analyzere/analyzere-python-extras
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
An extension to faciliate visualization of Analyze Re LayerView
Contributions:20 PRs, 66 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 11 months
analyzevisualization
analyzere/analyzere-python
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
Python wrapper for the Analyze Re API.
Contributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 5 months
apipython-wrapperpythonanalyze
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