Mateusz Soltysik

A primer on how insurance actually works - pooled risk, adjusters, reinsurance, and the parametric shift where satellites replaced humans. Written for engineers who touch financial systems or are just domain-curious.

Most projects don’t fail on execution. They fail because there was never a strategy to execute - just a wish wearing strategy’s clothes. Outcome = Strategy × Tactics, and zero times anything is zero.

Code review for the AI era. Five concrete shifts, anchored on the principles that didn’t change. PR template and reviewer prompt included.

A simple Slack convention - structured message prefixes - turned chaotic async discussions into clear, searchable, and accountable decision-making.

A hands-on guide to building a saga orchestrator from scratch in Python, ending with a live dashboard that visualizes transaction flows in real time.