Tony Mead

Progressive Casualty Insurance, Cleveland, OH

• Architected multi-region AWS infrastructure using active-active weighted Route 53 records and active-passive failover with health checks for high availability across regions
• Installed and trained a team to manage Kubeflow, standardizing data science tooling and ML model delivery across the organization
• Built an API-driven GitOps platform where teams drop manifests into a central ArgoCD repository, enabling self-service deployments while maintaining governance
• Scaled application delivery platform to support multiple development teams with standardized CI/CD pipelines and deployment patterns

Progressive Casualty Insurance, Cleveland, OH

• Developed and maintained an internal product site using Hugo to teach, explain, and guide users on best practices, GA shows ~80 users in the last 7 days with community contributions from 24 different users
• Overhauled and maintains a 5,000 line Python library to automate Snowflake database setups, adhering to stringent security policies. Eventually converted from a CLI tool to an API hosted in OpenShift
• Converted several laborious or manual processes to OpenShift based microservices including: Snowflake user management, Snowflake inbound/outbound sharing, and proxying kafka messages

Progressive Casualty Insurance, Cleveland, OH

• Championed Prefect adoption by creating a GitHub template and CI-CD pipeline with Jenkins, resulting in over a hundred forks and the replacement of legacy systems like SSIS and SAS
• Conducted extensive research and development to bring in and integrate Prefect within the Progressive ecosystem, including establishing a brand new AWS VPC topology to securely support outbound API calls

Progressive Casualty Insurance, Cleveland, OH

• Engineered a full-stack solution for monthly reporting, integrating AWS, Flask, Pandas, and front-end technologies used by a hundred analysts to get data for all personal lines pricing decisions
• Automated upwards of 50 hours a month of labor intensive data movement, cleanup, and processing by using Jenkins, Docker, and Python scripting
• Created a Python microservice to convert user-supplied YAML and Excel files into PDFs required by Departments of Insurance, saving hundreds of work hours per analyst per year