My Travelers Journey: Viktor Shcheglov
Viktor Shcheglov’s career is fueled by both talent and tenacity.
As a student at the University of Connecticut (UConn), Viktor set his sights on a career with Travelers and earned an internship his junior year. He made a great impression that summer, winning second place in an innovation sprint event for his Intern Experience Board idea, which would allow interns to easily find short-term projects, tasks or shadowing opportunities across all lines of business.
After one more summer, during which Viktor worked as a software engineer intern at a well-known tech company, he was hired into Travelers’ Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) (now the Engineering Development Program (EDP)). Since then, he has been promoted to Software Engineer 1, where he is involved in an initiative that helps Travelers make inflation-related adjustments in our risk models.
Viktor comes by his dedication to success honestly. His mother was determined to move the family from Russia to the United States, and she didn’t let their first attempt — a year spent in Davis, California, that ended when they were forced to return to Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia, because of a recession — deter her.
Two years later, 13-year-old Viktor and his mom were able to set up a home in America, permanently this time, in Hartford, Conn. He started hearing about Travelers as a freshman at UConn, when seniors told him about the great internships and the TLDP Program (now the EDP Program) – which piqued his interest, given that he wanted to improve his engineering and leadership skills.
Travelers is just as invested in Viktor’s leadership potential, inviting him into the Mid-Level Talent Pool Program, which is providing him key leadership skills training.
Outside of Travelers, Viktor works on his programming skills, plays video games, practices guitar, swims, works out at the gym and grows a vegetable garden in the summer.
