B2B SaaS Cyber Insurance AI / LLM Integration

Zachary Balaska Technical Product Manager

Equally comfortable in the codebase as on the roadmap.

I own the full software development lifecycle — from requirements and design through backend development, QA, and production deployment.

About

I'm a technical product manager in B2B SaaS for the cyber-insurance market. I own the full development lifecycle for a multi-product platform: gathering requirements, writing and assigning the work, running QA and code review, and shipping to production.

Over the past few years I've taken several products from zero to one on a Python and Vue 3 stack, wiring language models (OpenAI and Claude) and outside threat-data feeds into shipped features. I lead a small engineering and QA team across a few time zones, and I'm the point where engineering, customer success, and sales meet.

I'm technical enough to build it and product-minded enough to know what's worth building. In practice that means turning vague business needs into a scoped roadmap and following it through to the release notes.

Selected Work

Internal AI knowledge system 0→1

Self-initiated · adopted org-wide

An automated knowledge system that captures meetings, keeps documentation current, and answers questions across departments on demand. It connects Teams, Claude, Confluence, and Jira, and saves the team a few hours a week. I built it myself; it's now used org-wide.

LLM integration Workflow automation Internal tooling

Multi-product platform — full SDLC ownership

B2B SaaS · cyber insurance

I took several products from concept to production — backend, data ingestion, reporting, deployment, and DevOps — and shipped 49+ releases on a steady cadence with maintained changelogs. Adopting AI-assisted development let me do hands-on engineering across the stack and cut delivery time.

Python Vue 3 PostgreSQL AWS Release mgmt

Flagship platform UI & reporting redesign

Design through customer rollout

A full UI and reporting redesign of the flagship product, from wireframes to the customer release. It changed how security and privacy risk findings are presented to underwriters and policyholders.

Product design Figma Data viz / reporting
personal projects

ARP — Auto Reel Pipeline

Multi-agent AI system · built solo

A set of AI agents that takes one topic and turns it into a finished, published short-form video — research, script, voiceover, images, animation, and upload — for about $0.38 a run.

Multi-agent orchestration Python LLM / TTS / image APIs FFmpeg
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AI trading research system

Multi-agent automation · empirical strategy design

An automated swing-trading research tool. A Claude agent runs the strategy while cheaper agents handle data, backtesting, and tracking, sending daily picks to my phone.

Multi-agent orchestration Python SQLite Backtesting
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Capabilities

Product

  • Roadmap ownership
  • 0→1 product delivery
  • SDLC management
  • Agile / Scrum · Jira
  • Requirements & user stories
  • Release management
  • Stakeholder management

Technical

  • Python · JavaScript
  • Vue 3 · React
  • SQL / PostgreSQL · Redis
  • RESTful APIs · Git
  • AWS · GCP · DevOps
  • AI / LLM integration (OpenAI, Claude)

Design & Data

  • Figma · UI design
  • Report / output design
  • Wireframing
  • Data ingestion & pipelines
  • External data integration (NVD, MITRE)

Domain

  • Cyber insurance
  • Cybersecurity & privacy risk
  • SOC 2 · GDPR · CCPA · NIST
  • English (native)
  • Mandarin Chinese (HSK 3)

Certifications

Google Project Management Certificate

Google · Apr 2025
ID · JSKL9P1V8XLV

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)

Scrum Alliance · Sep 2024 – Sep 2026
ID · 2000053

Agile Project Management

Google · Oct 2024
ID · G8SS9339YBTF

Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap

LinkedIn · Mar 2022

LinkedIn Learning Highlights: Project Management

LinkedIn · Feb 2022

Agile Foundations

LinkedIn · Apr 2022

Agile Development Practices

LinkedIn · Apr 2022

Cybersecurity Foundations

LinkedIn · Apr 2022

Cybersecurity at Work

LinkedIn · Apr 2022

Learning Threat Modeling for Security Professionals

LinkedIn · Apr 2022

Kenzie Academy Front End Web Development

Butler University · Apr 2021

Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End

LinkedIn · Mar 2022

HTML Essential Training

LinkedIn · Mar 2022

User Experience for Web Design

LinkedIn · Mar 2022

UX Foundations: Accessibility

LinkedIn · Mar 2022

TKT: Knowledge about Language

Cambridge English · Aug 2016
ID · 0054644202

TKT: Module 3 – Managing the teaching and learning process

Cambridge English
ID · 0054053662

TKT: Module 2 – Lesson planning and use of resources

Cambridge English · Nov 2015
ID · 0051615222

TKT: Module 1 – Language and background to language learning

Cambridge English · Sep 2015
ID · 0051458658

TKT: Young Learners

Cambridge English · Aug 2015
ID · 0051440826

Experience

Technical Product Manager — CyRisk

B2B SaaS · cyber insurance · Remote · 2023 – Present

I own the end-to-end development lifecycle for a multi-product platform and lead a distributed engineering and QA team. Zero-to-one delivery on a Python / Vue 3 / PostgreSQL / AWS stack with language models and external threat-data feeds.

Cybersecurity Product Manager — Ford Motor Company

Remote · 2022

The liaison between enterprise product, legal and privacy, and outside regulators in California and the UK. I led remediation of 1,000+ noncompliant cloud resources during an AWS-to-GCP migration, cutting infrastructure spend by $5,000+ a month and closing the compliance gaps ahead of deadline.

Foreign English Teacher — Alphabelle American School

Taipei, Taiwan · 2017 – 2020

Built and taught adaptive curricula for students aged 3–17, ran classes of up to 20, and mentored new teachers.

Education

Kenzie Academy & Ball State University

Full-Stack Software Engineering Certificate — Kenzie Academy (Butler University / SNHU), 2021. B.S., International Business — Ball State University, 2015.

Contact

Zachary Balaska

I'm always happy to connect with people building thoughtful software. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn — and I'd be glad to share more detail on any of the work above.