Dharmesh Vazarkar

Dharmesh Vazarkar has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over three decades. Dharmesh is currently working at AM Best as the Associate Director - Quantitative Engineering since November 2019. Prior to this, they were self-employed, providing technical consulting services to clients in the financial and aerospace industries. In this role, they worked on various projects utilizing technologies from the Java ecosystem, Python, C, and C++. Some of their notable projects include creating a C/C++ Sybase DB replication module for UBS, a Java/Spring maintenance project for Bank of America, and a Python/AWS integration project for Invesco ILS platform with AIR Catrader application.

Before their self-employment, Dharmesh worked at AIG as a Senior Technologist in Risk and Asset Management from June 2007 to May 2013. Dharmesh also had a stint at Citigroup as a Senior Technologist in Futures Trading from March 2006 to April 2007, and at CIBC as a Senior Technologist in Trading Compliance from August 2004 to March 2006.

During the early years of their career, Dharmesh worked at Manugistics as a Lead Developer from March 2000 to August 2004. Dharmesh also had a period of independent consulting, working on various projects from January 1996 to December 1999. Before that, they worked at a Technology Solutions Company as a Senior Consultant from an unspecified date in 1993 to 1996. Dharmesh began their career at Intel as a Consultant from an unspecified date in 1990 to 1991.

Dharmesh Vazarkar obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, where they attended from 1987 to 1991.