Joe Barneson

Joe Barneson is Head of Engineering at MGT Insurance (MGT), a vertical AI neo-insurer modernizing commercial P&C insurance for businesses and their agents. In his role, Joe has architected MGT’s agentic platform, including Athena, an AI underwriting agent that prices and binds risk, and Aimee, a broker-facing appetite and quoting agent. His career has centered on building technology that helps small teams operate at outsized scale inside early-stage and venture-backed companies. Joe’s work is guided by the belief that AI should multiply human capacity, not replace it, training agents on today’s hardest problems so people can spend more time solving tomorrow’s. Prior to MGT, Joe served as VP of Engineering at Bold Penguin and CTO at Bunker.