src›app›about›page.tsx
Experience
Data Scientist, Machine Learning
Farm Mutual Re · Cambridge, ON
- Data & Machine Learning
PythonSQLKQLFabricPowerBIAzure DevOps
Machine Learning Engineer
Rexelle · Toronto, ON
- Reverse engineered HTTPS request/response payloads using Fiddler to extract real estate data, then implemented cleaning/normalization and persisted curated datasets in MongoDB for ML training/inference
- Implemented a full ML pipeline: flattened nested JSON to normalized schemas with validation/error handling, designed MongoDB indexes for feature retrieval performance, trained Python house price models, and integrated regulator feeds/APIs into ingestion services
PythonMongoDBFiddlerscikit-learn
Associate Actuary, Developer
PartnerRe · Toronto, ON
- Re-engineered Moody's AXIS VB.NET scripting framework with consistent patterns, shared utilities, and cleaner control flow to improve interpretability, testing, and execution efficiency
- Streamlined AXIS workflow by developing and integrating native C++ DLL in Visual Studio, achieving 96% reduction in runtime, leading to being tasked with engineering DLL solutions to accelerate data and policy information table (PIT) pipelines within AXIS
C++VB.NETMoody's AXISVisual Studio
Software Engineer
Synaply · Toronto, ON
- Shipped full-stack features in TypeScript (React + Express/Node), owning end-to-end delivery from requirements and API/data-contract design through testing, code reviews, and production validation
- Designed and performance-tuned PostgreSQL for high-ingestion, low-latency workloads, optimizing indexes and query plans (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE) to improve hot-path filter/search performance
- Built a Python RAG-based LLM pipeline for summarization and theme extraction, iterating on retrieval + model behavior with the R&D team and supporting production reliability via vulnerability remediation and runtime security controls
- www.synaply.io
TypeScriptReactExpressPostgreSQLPython
Actuarial Analyst, Business Planning and Capital Management
Foresters Financial · Toronto, ON
- Built a Python-based automated IFRS 17 LRC calculator, implementing balance-sheet bucketing and classification logic to produce standardized outputs with faster run-time
- Engineered SQL stored procedures to (1) auto-prune unused segmentation and line items to streamline roll-ups and (2) persist new raw outputs as terminal-node records as data sources evolved
- Led the IFRS 4 to IFRS 17 migration of a VBA analytics library by refactoring node routing and dependency chains, and delivered VBA automation tooling that cut manual processing time by up to 90%.
PythonSQLVBA
Technologies
Programming Languages
Python (pandas, scikit-learn), R (tidyverse, caret), C++, DataLink/VB.NET, VBA, TypeScript, Java, SQL, KQL
DBs & Tools
SSMS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AXIS, Docker, Git, MS Office, OracleDB, PowerBI/Fabric
Education
Honours Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics
Conferred 2022
University of Toronto
Professional Exams
Society of Actuaries
2022 - 2025
Associate of the Society of Actuaries2025
Problems
Output
Debug Console
Terminal
Ports
node+⊟🗑⋯^×
Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
/Users/raad/.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key=value
More configuration info: npm help config
Configuration fields: npm help 7 config
npm@10.2.3 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
(base) raad@raads-MBP website % npm run dev
> website@0.1.0 dev
> next dev --turbopack
▲ Next.js 15.3.1 (Turbopack)
- Local: http://localhost:3000