Danil Kolesnikov

Danil Kolesnikov serves as a founding engineer at Shepherd, where he has played a pivotal role in developing the company’s innovative full stack solution that significantly reduces the time required to underwrite insurance products from weeks to minutes. His expertise centers on using artificial intelligence to parse documentation and automate the review process, thereby improving efficiency for Shepherd’s customers. Kolesnikov is deeply involved in Shepherd’s strategic focus on combining top-tier insurance offerings with advanced software to aid commercial businesses in managing risk and preventing losses. He actively collaborates with both the engineering and underwriting teams and is instrumental in Shepherd’s ongoing investment in these areas. His efforts are also directed towards the launch of at least two new insurance products and the expansion of the risk management software platform. Additionally, Kolesnikov contributes to the industry dialogue through thought leadership, as evidenced by his recent blog post titled ‘Underwriting with superpowers: parsing claims data with OCR’ published on January 11, 2024.