Ledger Investing
In 2022, I joined Ledger Investing, an insurance-focused fintech startup building a marketplace that connects insurers with traditional investors for reinsurance. I worked hands-on across product, engineering, and analytics, contributing to front-end features, back-end services, internal tools, and reporting systems that supported a growing platform and new class of insurance-linked securities.
Highlights
Two core areas of work I contributed to at Ledger:
Platform Engineering & Analytics
Software Engineer
Built and optimized core platform flows, internal tools, and data systems to reduce friction, automate manual processes, and support marketplace scale.
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Product Strategy & Execution
Product Manager
Owned feature planning and delivery, writing specs, aligning stakeholders, and using analytics to guide product decisions and launches.
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Platform Engineering & Analytics
- Context: Worked on Ledger Investing’s investor platform and internal analytics infrastructure supporting large-scale capital markets data and investor workflows.
- Responsibilities: Developed and enhanced a web-based investor portal managing ~$300B in premium. Built features using React including investor interest tracking, in-app messaging, and workflow-triggered notifications. Built a capital markets database architecture by defining schemas and writing optimized SQL scripts with testing and logging to support reporting, analytics, and platform microservices. Created engagement and performance dashboards using Google Analytics while optimizing backend APIs for faster application load times.
- Impact: Improved click-through rates by ~35% and reduced page load times by ~40%. Cut database query execution time by ~50% while increasing data accessibility across multiple internal services.
Product Strategy & Execution
- Context: Supported product planning and cross-functional execution for Ledger Investing’s investor platform and capital marketplace tools.
- Responsibilities: Led product roadmap development and authored detailed requirement documents. Drove delivery of major platform capabilities including instant quotes, historical and live market data feeds, and in-app messaging. Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to create ad-hoc funnel and lead visualizations using HubSpot to map investor progression through the capital application lifecycle. Coordinated cross-team execution between engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to align releases with user engagement and revenue goals.
- Impact: Reduced user drop-off by ~20% and increased lead conversion rates by ~15%. Improved sales efficiency and product adoption through clearer funnel visibility and feature prioritization.