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THE TRACK RECORD

A Career Built on Signal, Not Noise.

From Bangalore to the City of London. Built on measurable impact.

Guy Carpenter

SVP, Credit Reinsurance AI · 2025-present

London

  • Leads data & AI for Credit, Bond & Political Risk
  • Built production AI workflows for credit reinsurance intelligence
  • Speaker: City & Financial Global 2026
Databricks PySpark LLMs RAG

Swiss Re

Lead Data Scientist · 2020-2025

London

  • MIT collaboration — bond default prediction
  • GenAI deployed across Credit & Surety
  • £400k IT cost savings via Palantir Foundry
Palantir Foundry PyTorch FinBERT Azure

Wipro

Data Science Manager & AI Practice Lead · 2016-2020

Bangalore

  • Levi's model presented by CFO at Davos
  • COVID drug work continued by Govt. of India
  • NASSCOM AI GameChanger Award
PySpark AWS SageMaker GCP XGBoost

RESUME

Banu Munnangi

Profile

SVP-level data and AI leader focused on reinsurance analytics, actuarial pricing, portfolio optimisation, and LLM-enabled underwriting automation.

Education

B.Tech Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal (2012-2016) - First Class with Distinction, Merit Scholar.

Core Skills

  • Python, PySpark, SQL, TypeScript, Django, Flask
  • Databricks, Palantir Foundry, Azure ML, IBM Watson
  • PyTorch, TensorFlow, NLP, Generative AI, LLM systems
  • Portfolio optimisation, Bayesian methods, time-series and stochastic modelling

Notable Achievements

  • MIT collaboration on interpretable default prediction for contract bonds
  • Levi's forecasting work highlighted at WEF Davos
  • NASSCOM AI GameChanger award for COVID drug-repurposing AI research
  • Frequent keynote and panel speaker on AI in insurance and reinsurance
  • Guest lecture at SCMHRD, Symbiosis Pune MBA (2022).

SVP, Credit Reinsurance AI - Guy Carpenter

London · 2025-present

  • Leads analytics for Credit, Bond and Political Risk, with a focus on actuarial pricing in credit reinsurance.
  • Builds primarily on Databricks across pricing, risk, and portfolio workflows.
  • Developing LLM products across pricing support, entity matching, data transformation, wording analytics with RAG, contract management, workboard automation, email analytics, and bordereaux management.

Lead Data Scientist, Product Owner - Credit & Surety, Swiss Re

London · Dec 2020-2025

  • Owned the end-to-end data and AI landscape for Credit & Surety on Palantir.
  • Built underwriting memo generation and document summarisation using generative AI.
  • Worked with Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT) on contract bond default prediction with optimal classification trees.

Data Science Manager - Advanced AI Practice, Wipro

Bangalore · Jul 2016-Dec 2020

  • Led drug repurposing AI programme for COVID-19 in partnership with Stanford University.
  • Drove high-accuracy time-series forecasting for revenue and cost strategy.
  • Built sales prediction models for major clients including Levi's.

And many more recognitions across Swiss Re, Wipro, and industry forums.

AWARDS

Recognition

SCMHRD Symbiosis Pune MBA guest lecture certificate
SCMHRD GUEST LECTURE CERTIFICATE
Frontline Manager award recognition
FRONTLINE MANAGER
Cup trophies in a row
RECOGNITION
Plaques and medals on shelf
AWARD
Awards display and school recognitions
NASSCOM AI GAMECHANGER
Pinnacle Award recognition
PINNACLE AWARD
Trophy and medal display
RECOGNITION
Best Employee of the Year recognition at Swiss Re
BEST EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR

THE STACK

Tech Stack

MODELS & AI

PyTorchFinBERTXGBoostLLMsRAGAgentic Systems

INFRASTRUCTURE

Palantir FoundryPalantir AIPDatabricksPySparkAzure MLAWS SageMakerGCP

DOMAIN

Credit RiskPD/LGD/EADBasel IIIReinsuranceCredit & SuretyBondPolitical Risk