Lucas Polo
Lucas Polo
Lucas Polo is a seasoned reinsurance underwriter and data scientist with an interdisciplinary background in risk analysis, geoprocessing, agronomy, and computer programming. He has over four years of experience in analyzing complex risks, customizing insurance and reinsurance covers, and managing retail portfolios using advanced knowledge of rural insurance underwriting, geoprocessing, statistics, and data analysis with R and Python. Lucas has also honed his skills in geographic information systems (GIS), PostgreSQL, PostGIS, NOSQL databases, Java, web services, Amazon Web Services, Docker, virtualization, and Linux.
Lucas Polo's strong foundation came from the Universidade de São Paulo, where he studied his Master's in Applied Economics and Agronomist Engineering, specializing in decision analysis, remote sensing, geoprocessing, risk modelling, and agriculture. He has worked for prestigious firms like Munich Re, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and Newe Seguros. At Swiss Re, he worked as both an Insurance and Reinsurance Underwriter, Crop Insurance Underwriting Manager, and R&D for Agro Underwriting. Concurrently, Lucas also supervised a crop monitoring project at Grupo de Estudos em Gestão de Seguros e Riscos (GESER), while also contributing research in applied economics at the same university.