Matty Skalniak
Matty Skalniak
Guidewire Digital Architect & Lead Developer
Open to newengagements · 2026

I ship insurance digital solutions in no time

★★★★★ 7 enterprise projects delivered
Fast delivery Quality engineering Eye for design AI-powered processes Business-led PM
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TRUSTED BY

AXA Stellantis NFU Mutual Colonnade Aviva Rosgosstrakh MetLife Guidewire PwC EY Deloitte

My enterprise
projects

Guidewire Digital portal engagements with global and European insurers — most recent first.

AXA Ireland insurer
Digital Solutions Architect & Lead Developer · team of 9

Owned the Digital solution architecture — authored, defended and presented the KDD and TDD at TDA. Led 9 developers delivering a custom Quote & Buy connected to Guidewire PolicyCenter: React frontend, Guidewire Digital SDK integration and Cloud API customisations.

2025 — Present
Stellantis FR insurer
Guidewire Expert Developer

Expert developer supporting junior developers and shipping CustomerEngage Account Management and Quote & Buy, ProducerEngage, VendorEngage and FNOL on Guidewire Cloud (Guidewire React framework + Edge API).

2023 — 2024
NFUM UK insurer
Lead — Quote & Buy / MTA, Home product

Led Quote & Buy and Mid-Term Adjustment (MTA) development for the Home product on Guidewire CustomerEngage (on-premise), with Edge API customisations.

2022 — 2024
Colonnade CZ · HU · PL carrier
Lead — Digital Portals development

Lead on Colonnade's Digital portal programme — FNOL and Quote & Buy — with hands-on involvement from inception through delivery across the CEE footprint.

2021
Aviva IT carrier
Digital Portals Developer

Part of the development team building Guidewire Digital Portals (AngularJS version) for Aviva's Italian business.

2021
RGS RUS carrier
Lead — ProducerEngage Digital Portal

Lead on the ProducerEngage Digital portal — AngularJS frontend with Edge API customisations; received an internal company award for fastest delivery.

2019 — 2020
MetLife US carrier
Digital Portals Developer

Part of the development team on Guidewire Digital Portals (AngularJS version) — three production releases on one of the largest insurance programmes in the world, with hundreds of developers involved.

2018
10+
Years of experience in design and development.
✓✓
7+
Years on Guidewire Digital Specialist · PolicyCenter Config certified.
100%
Satisfied customers across every Guidewire engagement.

Certifications

Guidewire credentials behind the work.

Guidewire certifications Issued by Guidewire Software
Guidewire Certified Associate · Jutro Developer badge
Guidewire Jutro Developer · Associate 2025
Guidewire Software
Associate-level certification on the Guidewire Jutro framework — the modern, open-source frontend foundation for Guidewire Digital portals.
Jutro Frontend
Guidewire Digital Specialist 2021
Guidewire Software
Specialist-level certification on the Guidewire Digital portals platform — Quote & Buy, Account Management, Producer Engage and FNOL frontends, plus the Edge API customisation layer.
Digital Portals Edge API
Guidewire Certified Specialist · PolicyCenter Configuration Developer badge
Specialist Certification — PolicyCenter 8.0 Configuration 2018
Guidewire Software
Specialist-level configuration certification for Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.0 — product model, business rules, integration patterns and PCF customisation.
PolicyCenter 8.0 Gosu

My journey
in IT

From Computer Science in Warsaw to Guidewire Digital portals across the world — a decade across insurance and frontend leadership.

Digital Architect / Lead Digital Developer Guidewire Digital portals across global insurers — AXA Ireland (Digital Architect, leading a team of 9 on a custom Quote & Buy and MTA), Stellantis and NFU Mutual. 2021 — Present
Technical Lead / Lead Digital Developer Lead on Colonnade (CEE) and RGS (RU), and a developer on Aviva (IT) and MetLife (US) Guidewire Digital portal programmes. 2018 — 2021
Frontend Lecturer Led three groups of students through a JavaScript course — lectures, consultations, progress reviews and feedback. 2020
Lead Frontend Developer / UI&UX Designer Led the frontend team — managing, prototyping in Sketch and shipping custom components. Cut delivery time by initiating an in-house Design System. Drove the migration from AngularJS 1 + ES5 + Gulp/Grunt to AngularJS 1.5 + TypeScript + Webpack, then took the team through a 2-week ramp onto Angular 4 / ngrx / RxJS / Node.js to hit a release. 2015 — 2018
Mobile .NET Developer End-to-end ownership (MS SQL, .NET Framework, C#, XAML) of two tablet apps published on the Microsoft Store — Allocation Manager and PitStop Fleet — both rated above 4.5 / 5. 2013 — 2015
— Education

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Five and a half years across Warsaw and Barcelona.

Warsaw University of Technology Warsaw, Poland
BSc — MSc · Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence 2010 — 2016
University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
MSc · Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence 2014 — 2015
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What I offer

From a one-page architecture review to a full Guidewire Digital programme — pick the bits you need, or take the whole package.

01
Digital solutions architecture
KDD and TDD authored, defended and presented at TDA — the whole Guidewire Digital architecture story, from custom React frontends to Cloud / Edge API integration with PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimCenter.
 02
Project scope & development management
Inception, scoping, estimations and delivery management — bringing an engineering view into commercial conversations so the plan you sign up for is the plan that ships.
 03
Technical leadership
Tech-lead role for 5–9 person Guidewire Digital teams — running standups, code review, escalations, and the relationship with Guidewire and the business stakeholders.
 04
Expert development & technical support
Hands-on Guidewire Expert Developer — CustomerEngage, ProducerEngage, VendorEngage and FNOL on Cloud and on-premise; coaching and unblocking junior developers along the way.
 05
Custom Design Systems & UI design
Bespoke Design Systems and UI design for Guidewire Digital portals — from prototyping in Sketch / Figma to a tokenised component library that keeps large teams visually consistent.
 06
Frontend modernisation
AngularJS → modern Angular / TypeScript / Webpack, Guidewire Jutro / Digital SDK adoption, and migrations from open-code components to the closed Guidewire ecosystem — without the rewrite.
 07
Digital audits
Independent review of an existing Guidewire Digital programme — code quality, architecture, integration delivery plan, hiring shape and time-to-market — with a prioritised punch list.
 08
AI-powered development process
An agentic, AI-assisted delivery process tuned for insurance — typically halving the time of standard Guidewire Digital development from intake to release.
 09
Full digital transformation
End-to-end transformation: from plan through design and into the development of Digital Web and Mobile applications — Guidewire-native or fully bespoke.
 10
Guidewire courses, teaching & technical interviews
Guidewire onboarding and frontend courses for client teams, plus leading technical interviews — built on years of lecturing JavaScript at Future Collars and running interview loops on enterprise programmes.