Venkata Naveen Reddy, Seelam

Enterprise Technology Leader | AI, Cloud & Insurance Expert at PwC

13+ years of experience delivering Enterprise-scale solutions

$40M+ value delivered for enterprise and Fortune 100 insurers

Led 100+ engineers across multi-year digital transformation programs

Featured insights in 60+ articles on AI, insurance, cloud, and leadership

70+ certifications, ACE credentials, Fortune 100 insurers served

Extensive experience solving business problems with innovative solutions for multiple Tier 1 clients having revenues >30 billion, million-dollar implementations, overseeing 100+ resources, supporting multiple business units, insurance line of business, handling high impact and critical production issues.

Delivered strategic guidance to client business teams across the full lifecycle of enterprise initiatives—including drafting robust business requirements, leading root cause analyses, resolving high-priority production incidents, and overseeing timely deployment of fixes and enhancements in regulated environments.

Professional and ACE certified in Guidewire Insurance Suite Integration, Billing Center, Policy center. Certified in Azure AI and AWS cloud.

Extensive expertise in risk management, having successfully led resolution of multi-million-dollar production issues. Directed recovery exercises, implemented remediation strategies, and drove actionable outcomes to restore operational integrity and prevent recurrence.

Consistently recognized for precision and clarity in client communications, with a proven ability to present in-depth technical analyses, articulate risk scenarios, recommend industry-aligned best practices, and assess cross-functional impacts with executive-level fluency.

• Transforming mission critical, legacy heavy insurance systems into modern, cloud integrated, AI enabled platforms without disrupting business continuity using Guidewire, AI technologies. Designing integrations and monitoring procedures across various cloud platforms. This resulted in cutting down time by 85% in underwriting policies, bill management and claims handling . Reduced system downtime by ~30%. Modernization delivers an estimated $440M–$850M in annual value through combined cost savings, efficiency gains, risk reduction, and revenue growth for a 10 billion revenue client.

Building Analytics tools leveraging AI models, that help insurance clients anticipate and prevent outages, bottlenecks, and SLA breaches, and provide insights, plan strategies for future. This helped clients with 1M annually in reduced downtimes, emergency support costs, ~300k in data restoration efforts, 40% reduction in manual support teams

Building Reusable Frameworks that Compound Value Over Time, including accelerators, reusable components, and best‑practice playbooks that reduce delivery effort for future projects. I have consistently reduced delivery timelines by up to 40%, cut maintenance costs by 50%, and improved project success rates by 20%, generating multi‑million‑dollar savings for enterprise insurance clients.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals . Credential ID A5635049F02CA3DC

Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications Board.Credential ID ITB-CTFL 0067488

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer.Credential ID 237699212OCPJSE6P

IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Integration Developer

IBM Certified Associate Developer -- Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Directory Server V6.1

IBM Certified Solution Designer - Rational Functional Tester for Java

IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9 Fundamentals

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Associate Certification - InsuranceSuite 10.0 Developer Show Credential

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