Khalid Elsawaf
Morgan Stanley, Executive Director
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 currently co-leads the Evolution @ Scale working group under the DevOps Automation Mutualization special interest group for FINOS (Fintech Open Source Foundation).
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.
Presentations
Making changes at Scale - large scale roll out of OpenRewrite and Moderne one year later: Lessons le
Morgan Stanley has been leveraging Moderne for close to a year now as part of its suite of modernization tools to automate large-scale refactoring and technical debt remediation. Join us to learn more about our approach, our successes, and our challenges to date, and what we have planned next to continue this transformation.