Session Details
Information to Inspiration: Morgan Stanley’s Data-Driven Approach to Developer Productivity
When Morgan Stanley took on its DevOps transformation, we knew we wanted to use data to drive the adoption of developer best practices. Join us to learn more about how Almanac, our patented warehouse and badge solution pushed information to developers and helped transform their day-to-day activities, promoting both productivity improvements and the paydown of technical debt
meet the speaker
Khalid Elsawaf
Khalid Elsawaf is the Secured Financing Tech (SFT) Post-Trade Lead Architect and Prime Brokerage & Secured Financing Tech (PBSFT) Montreal Lead. Khalid is passionate about improving developer productivity and has lead and participated in multiple initiatives, including driving the firm’s DevOps transformation, adoption of a data-driven approach to rationalizing change management, and technical debt remediation at scale using industry standard tools. Khalid is also the Institutional Securities Technology (IST) division representative on the Software Development and Change Management Control Committee (SDCMCC), responsible for the firm’s SDLC policy and procedure.
Khalid joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 as an Associate, and was promoted to Vice-President in 2018 and to Executive Director in 2023.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Khalid worked at Oracle in Montreal, starting as junior developer in 2006 until his departure in 2014 as a software development manager.
He holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree (with honors) from Concordia University in Montreal.