Savus Appoints Former SelectQuote Chief Architect Sergey Zakharchenko to Scale P&C Insurance Automation

Savus, Inc. has appointed Sergey Zakharchenko, the former Chief Architect of SelectQuote, as Senior Development Engineer to scale its P&C distribution and underwriting automation platform. For carriers, brokers, and MGAs, this hire signals a strategic move toward enterprise-grade reliability in quoting and binding workflows as the firm expands its footprint across both personal and commercial lines.

What was announced

Savus, Inc. confirmed that Sergey Zakharchenko has joined the company’s engineering leadership to accelerate the core systems driving its distribution and underwriting technology. Zakharchenko is a recognized expert in the architecture of high-performance insurance systems, having previously served as Chief Architect at SelectQuote. In that role, he was responsible for the high-volume technical infrastructure supporting online insurance shopping and fulfillment for one of the largest publicly traded direct-to-consumer distributors in the United States.

Operating out of the company’s California headquarters, Zakharchenko will focus on enhancing the performance and scalability of the Savus platform. His mandate includes refining the workflows for quoting, binding, and policy issuance, ensuring that the technology can handle increased volume as the company expands into new lines of business. The appointment is intended to provide distribution partners with faster and more dependable results during the underwriting process.

Beyond his tenure in the insurance distribution space, Zakharchenko’s background includes a significant period as a Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo. His experience in the banking sector involved building systems within highly regulated environments where security, reliability, and regulatory rigor are paramount. This combination of high-scale insurance architecture and banking-grade security is expected to bolster Savus’s technical capabilities as it integrates with more partners across the P&C landscape.

"Sergey has deep understanding and experience on both sides of the problem we're solving. He has architected insurance systems for a public company operating at national scale, and he has built inside a bank where the bar for reliability and security is as high as it gets."

Galina Tselenchuk, Chief Product Officer at Savus.

The companies involved

Savus, Inc. is a technology company focused on the transformation of Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance distribution. The firm specializes in underwriting automation, providing tools that allow carriers and distribution partners to streamline the transition from initial quote to final policy issuance. By focusing on the automation of these core functions, the company aims to reduce friction in the sales cycle for both personal and commercial insurance products.

The hire of Zakharchenko brings expertise from SelectQuote, a major player in the American insurance market known for its massive direct-to-consumer reach. SelectQuote operates as a distributor across multiple lines, including senior, life, and auto/home insurance, requiring highly sophisticated systems to manage lead flow and carrier integrations at scale. Additionally, the inclusion of experience from Wells Fargo, a global financial services giant, provides Savus with a perspective on the institutional-grade security and compliance standards required by the largest insurance carriers and financial intermediaries.

What FF News has reported before

FF News has previously tracked the expansion of the Savus leadership team as the company seeks to industrialize its underwriting automation capabilities. In September 2026, the publication reported on the appointment of another industry specialist in Savus Appoints Insurtech Veteran Ethan Jones as EVP of Operations to Scale Underwriting Automation. Jones joined the firm to oversee the operational scaling of the platform, complementing the technical focus now being led by Zakharchenko. These consecutive high-level appointments suggest a concerted effort by the California-based technology provider to strengthen its operational and engineering foundations simultaneously.

What this means from an insurtech perspective

This appointment highlights a critical trend in the insurtech sector: the shift from "front-end" innovation to "middle-office" engineering. While many early insurtechs focused on customer-facing interfaces, the real bottleneck for carriers and MGAs remains the scalability of quoting and binding. By hiring a Chief Architect from a major distributor like SelectQuote, Savus is addressing the "plumbing" of insurance distribution. This puts pressure on incumbent legacy vendors who often struggle with the speed and reliability required for modern, automated underwriting. For MGAs and brokers, the focus on high-volume reliability is a gain, as it directly impacts loss ratios through more consistent underwriting and improves customer trust through faster policy issuance.