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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
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.
Patrick Ayoup joined Morgan Stanley in 2015 as an Associate after completing his undergraduate studies. Currently, Patrick serves as the Tech Lead for the Almanac Data Warehouse. His primary technical interests lie in building tools that enhance the overall developer experience. Through Almanac, Patrick has played a key role in supporting the firm’s Agile and DevOps transformations by making a rich landscape of data accessible to users across all levels—from developers to senior leadership.
Beyond his technical responsibilities, Patrick is deeply committed to mentoring and training the next generation of software engineers.
During his graduate studies, Patrick conducted research on the impact of gamification in promoting the adoption of DevOps practices, as part of the Data Driven Analysis of Software (DAS) Lab. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Applied Science in Software Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal.