The following is the story of how Lakebed came to be.
I, Simon, co-founded Lakebed and before that worked in the insurance industry for 15+ years. It’s been exciting! Honest!
My career in insurance slowly transitioned towards IT, software development, and information security because I’m passionate about these and the (property & casualty, P&C) insurance industry has been slow to adopt them.
2014
The first insurance company (2014 timeframe) I did major software development for was using 15 year old Java forms (last updated in 1997) and required staff to do a lot of duplicate data entry. I wrote an internal web application from scratch that first automated all the duplication; staff entered the data in the old Java forms and the web app pulled materialized views from the ‘single source of truth‘. The web app made it easy & efficient for staff to use the data as they needed and automatically generated links to Google search, Google Streetview, etc. For management, this web app provided near-real-time dashboards on employee KPI’s and business performance.