Ollie Baccay

Welcome! I'm Ollie.

I'm a Mathematics major with a Data Science minor at Northeastern University.

Actuarial Science | Machine Learning | Data Engineering

About

I'm Ollie Baccay, a second-year Mathematics student at Northeastern University with a minor in Data Science. I have a strong interest in machine learning and data engineering, particularly at their intersection with insurance and actuarial science.

Most recently, I worked as a Data Engineer at Cortex building an AI knowledge graph. This summer, I'll be an actuarial intern at Travelers in the Enterprise Catastrophe Risk Management department, and this fall at John Hancock as an actuarial co-op.
I passed SOA Exam P and am currently preparing to take Exam FM in June 2026.

I am from Chappaqua, NY and now based in Boston, MA. Outside of class and work,
I enjoy playing guitar, bouldering, and photography.

Experience

Incoming Actuarial Co-op

Boston, MA · Hybrid
John Hancock · Co-op Sept 2026 – Dec 2026 · 4 mos

Exploring pricing and risk analysis in life insurance.

Incoming Actuarial Intern (ALDP)

Hartford, CT · Hybrid
Travelers · Internship June 2026 – Aug 2026 · 3 mos

Fitting pricing models and analyzing rating factors for the Enterprise Catastrophe team.

Data Engineer

Boston, MA · Hybrid
Cortex · Contract Jan 2026 – April 2026 · 4 mos

Built an AI knowledge graph that cut engineering research time by 99%.

Property & Casualty Intern

Chappaqua, NY · On-site
Nicolaysen Insurance Agency · Internship July 2025 – Aug 2025 · 2 mos

Worked with personal lines policies, interpreting coverage and generating client quotes.

Physics Research Intern (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)

Bronxville, NY · On-site
Sarah Lawrence College · Internship May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 4 mos

Applied quantitative analysis to interpret experimental data in a physics research setting.

Actuarial Exams

CAS (Casualty Actuarial Society) Track

Exam P

Probability

Passed — Jan 2026

Exam FM

Financial Mathematics

Sitting — June 2026

Projects

Life Insurance Premium Calculator

Interactive app that models mortality probabilities and demographic risk factors to estimate life insurance premiums in real time.

PythonShinyNumPy
View on GitHub →

NLP for Insurance Litigation

NLP framework that processes 8 insurance litigation cases using TF-IDF scoring to extract risk indicators and visualize liability patterns.

PythonPandasPlotlyMatplotlibNLP
View on GitHub →

Global GDP Explorer Dashboard

Interactive dashboard analyzing GDP data across 150+ countries with dynamic filtering and visualizations of economic composition breakdowns.

PythonHoloVizPlotlyPandas
View on GitHub →

Music Genre Classification Model

ML pipeline classifying 17,000+ songs into 11 genres using KNN, Random Forest, and SVM, achieving 50%+ accuracy with feature importance analysis.

Pythonscikit-learnXGBoostSeabornMatplotlibPandas
View on GitHub →

Skills

Languages

PythonSQLHTML5CSS3

Libraries / Frameworks

PandasNumPyMatplotlibPlotlyscikit-learnSciPyTensorFlowStatsmodelsSeabornNLTKHoloViz

Tools / Databases

ExcelGitDockerPostgrespgvectorSupabaseKuzuPower BIMicrosoft Office Suite

Interests

Ollie playing guitar

Music

Plays guitar, bass, violin, and drums. Has performed at venues across the US and Canada. Loves 90's rock and audio engineering.

@olliebaccaymusic

Bouldering

Almost a V7 climber.

Photography

Enjoys shooting nature, architecture, and my friends on digital camera.

Traveling

Spent first year of college studying abroad in London. Has traveled to Paris, Prague, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, and Luxembourg.

Sports

Premier League (Tottenham fan 🥲) and American football fan.