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OpenLife Platform

An open-source take on life insurance administration, built to explore what a modern core platform could look like without decades of legacy assumptions.

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Overview

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Key Features

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Architecture

Overview

OpenLife Platform is my attempt to think through a better core system for life insurance. Instead of starting with the assumptions baked into older admin platforms, it starts with APIs, modular services, and the idea that modernization should be possible in stages instead of one risky replacement.

Key Features

  • Policy Administration: Full lifecycle management for life insurance policies
  • Claims Processing: Streamlined claims workflow with configurable business rules
  • Agent Portal: Self-service capabilities for agents and brokers
  • Customer Portal: Digital-first customer experience
  • API Gateway: RESTful APIs for integration with external systems

Architecture

The platform is built on modern microservices architecture principles:

  • Event-driven communication using message queues
  • Domain-driven design for clear bounded contexts
  • Container-based deployment with Docker and Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL for transactional data with read replicas

Why Open Source?

Life insurance still carries too much expensive, inflexible core software. Open-sourcing this platform is a way to make the conversation more concrete and give other builders something real to react to:

  1. Make modernization ideas easier to examine and improve
  2. Give architects and builders a working reference point
  3. Encourage collaboration on insurance-specific platform patterns
  4. Keep the discussion grounded in actual software, not just slide decks

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