Matty Skalniak — Guidewire Digital Architect & Lead Developer

My enterprise
projects

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

AXA Ireland insurer

Digital Solutions Architect & Lead Developer · 9 devs

Owned the Digital solution architecture — KDD and TDD authored, defended and presented at TDA. Led a team of 9 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 role inside the team — supporting juniors and shipping CustomerEngage Account Management & Quote and 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 and Buy and Mid-Term-Adjustment development for the Home product on Guidewire CustomerEngage (on-premise) — Quote & Buy and Account Management portals — with Edge API customisations on the Guidewire React framework.

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 generation) 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. Internal company award for fastest delivery.

2019 — 2020

MetLife US carrier

Digital Portals Developer

Part of the development team on Guidewire Digital Portals (AngularJS generation) — 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.

Technical Lead / Digital Architect Guidewire Digital portals across global insurers — AXA Ireland (custom Quote & Buy, team of 9), Stellantis, NFU Mutual. 2021 — Present

Technical Lead / Lead Digital Developer Lead on Colonnade (CEE), Aviva (IT), RGS (RU) 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