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Gordon Wintrob

Gordon Wintrob

Co‑founder & CTO at Newfront — building modern insurance platform

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San Francisco, California
Joined May 2024
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Summary

Technical founder and platform builder: as Newfront's co‑founder and CTO, Gordon leads the engineering effort to modernize commercial insurance — building a platform that automates broker administrative work, extracts structured data from documents (OCR + ML), and enables data-driven pricing and product decisions. newfront+2
Startup founder with an early exit: Gordon founded StackLead (focused on automating sales‑lead research) and sold it to LinkedIn; that trajectory led to an engineering leadership role at LinkedIn before co‑founding Newfront. ycombinator+2
Hands‑on engineer and open-source presence: maintains an active GitHub account with public repositories and runs a developer-focused blog/newsletter (GET PUT POST), indicating ongoing hands‑on engineering, platform thinking, and a public technical voice. github+1
Strong MIT pedigree and extracurricular leadership: MIT Course 6 graduate (2008–2012) with awards and leadership roles (Karl Taylor Compton Award, MIT IFC president), plus endurance athletics (marathons, crew, triathlon), suggesting drive, teamwork, and high personal discipline. mit+1

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How Newfront Ships Faster with AI-Driven Development

June 1, 2025

Newfront blog post co-authored by Gordon Wintrob describing how Newfront uses AI-driven tools to accelerate development and improve broker/customer workflows.

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Insurance Software with Gordon Wintrob (Software Engineering Daily podcast)

August 1, 2019

Long-form interview discussing how Newfront approaches insurance technology, brokerage tooling, and pricing/data science for commercial insurance.

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Selected blog posts on GET PUT POST

Technical and product essays and interviews about APIs, developer platforms, and integrations.

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Hobbies

Distance running — has run the Los Angeles and Boston Marathons; participates in triathlon and crew mit+1

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