Hi, my name is
John Koestner.
I am an actuary and techie
I’m a hobbyist and ongoing tinkerer.
About Me
I am passionate about technology, innovation, and creativity. Actuarial has been my career where I am able to apply these ambitions. I have also enjoyed learning about the space through some hobby projects. I hope to learn more about how machine learning and predictive analytics will be able to continue to see practical applications.
Here are a few technologies I’ve been working with recently:
- Actuarial
- Python
- SAS
- SQL
- Git
Where I’ve Worked
Director, Life Experience and Assumptions @ Genworth
March, 2017 - Present
- Monitor life inforce block, reviewing and updating assumptions for mortality, lapse, and premium persistency using traditional monitoring techniques as well as predictive analytics.
- Oversight of life and annuities experience studies and industry surveys.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to provide future looking assumptions.
- Support and upskill team to become more efficient and coordinated between departments such as valuation, projections, finance, and reinsurance and be prepared for future analytics.
Some Things I’ve Built
Featured Project
Morai
An actuarial tool for analyzing mortality data, interfacing with SOA mortality tables and CDC mortality rates.- Python
- Plotly
- Postgres
Featured Project
FolioFlex
A financial dashboard for monitoring portfolios and providing metrics of market performance.- Python
- Plotly
- Postgres
Featured Project
OSLLMH (Open Source LLM Helper)
A wrapper for llama-index and Qdrant that supports a web interface for querying a vector database and chatting with an LLM using RAG.- Python
- llama-index
- Qdrant
Featured Project
Pensieve (Web Tracker)
A web scraper that builds analytics and insights from external websites, covering job listings and real estate data.- Python
- Web Scraping
- Plotly
- Postgres
Other Noteworthy Projects
view the archivemlfinlab
Machine Learning for financial markets
smart home beginner
The best website that brings together all the concepts of smart home automations
yfinance
Great project that brings in finance data
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Although I’m not currently looking for any new opportunities, my inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I’ll try my best to get back to you!
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