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Geico repatriates work from the cloud, continues ambitious infra overhaul
Cue Kubernetes, OpenStack, and a LOT of on-premises storage, says platform and infrastructure VP Rebecca Weekly in an exclusive interview with The Stack.
GEICO, a large insurance firm owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is repatriating many workloads from the cloud, The Stack can confirm – as it embarks on a sweeping, ambitious architectural overhaul. Weekly has been hiring widely as GEICO builds out its team across a sweeping range of functions: A recent post by a colleague on LinkedIn noted that GEICO was hiring across “nearly all domains [including] IaaS roles (dc, networking, compute core), PaaS roles (databases, storage, search, queues, caches), data platform (spark, iceberg, data lakehouse), billing + finance tech, marketing tech, or AI/ML…”) for example. As the head of Berkshire’s insurance business, Ajit Jain, noted at its annual meeting back in May 2023, before Weekly and many of her peers leading the overhaul were hired: “Geico’s technology needs a lot more work than I thought it did.”
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