Caesar Balona
Head Risk Intelligence & Engineering at Old Mutual Insure
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolCaesar Balona is a qualified actuary (FASSA) and engineering-led risk leader with eight years’ experience modernising governance, risk, compliance and actuarial functions through data science, AI and automation. As Head: Risk Intelligence & Engineering at Old Mutual Insure he reports to the CRO and Chief Actuary, leads cross-functional teams to shift the 2nd line from manual oversight to predictive, automated controls, and serves as the independent validator for all operational AI and advanced-analytics models. He has built proprietary geospatial platforms and drives commercial and internal climate strategy, blending catastrophe and physical climate modelling with product design and adaptation partnerships. A published thought leader (British Actuarial Journal) and award-winning researcher (Geoffrey Heywood Prize for ActuaryGPT), he combines hands-on programming passion with actuarial rigour to turn complex climate and model risk into practical, auditable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Actuarial Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Actuarial Science at University of the Witwatersrand
English
Github Skills (5)
optimization-methods9
python8
scikit-learn7
pandas7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
casact/tryangle
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Tryangle is an automatic chainladder reserving framework. It provides scoring and optimisation methods based on machine learning techniques to automatically select optimal parameters to minimise reserve prediction error.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 24 commits in 1 year 8 months
machine-learningoptimization-methods
cbalona/modern-actuary
Nov 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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