- Arabic: Native Proficiency
Khalid E. Abu El-Soud
Riyadh
Summary
Visionary technology executive with 15+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation across financial services and telecom environments. Recognized for stabilizing complex technology landscapes, modernizing mission-critical platforms, and converting fragmented legacy estates into resilient, cloud-native ecosystems. Proven ability to build and lead high-performance engineering and architecture organizations, institute strong governance and risk controls, and deliver regulatory-compliant platforms that enable growth and competitive differentiation. Brings deep expertise in microservices architecture, DevSecOps, and large-scale omnichannel platforms, with a hands-on, execution-driven leadership style suited to turnaround, modernization, and scale-up mandates under new executive management.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solutions Lead Architect
AlRajhi Capital, NTG
01.2024 - Current
- Executive Partnership: Partnered with C-suite and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into executable architecture and application roadmaps aligned with growth priorities.
- Governance & Risk: Established enterprise design review and architecture boards, standardizing decision frameworks and reducing delivery and operational risk.
- Integration & Modernization: Led consolidation of legacy platforms into a scalable, unified integration layer, accelerating digital channel expansion.
- Organization & Talent: Built and led a high-performing design organization, improving delivery throughput and business–technology alignment.
- Strategic Design Leadership: Drove application and design strategy aligned with corporate objectives and enterprise brand positioning.
Solutions Architect
AlRajhi Capital, NTG
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Core Systems Modernization: Led end-to-end modernization of ARC’s mission-critical Order Management System, applying cloud-native and modular design patterns to significantly improve agility, performance, and scalability.
- Regulatory & Market Innovation: Architected pioneering market-making and IPO enablement platforms, achieving full CMA compliance while delivering first-mover advantage in the Saudi capital markets.
- Enterprise Cloud Strategy: Designed and enabled the maturation of ARC’s private cloud and platform foundations, establishing a scalable base for enterprise digital transformation.
- Digital Capability Enablement: Introduced enterprise User Case Management (UCM) and User Profile Management (UPM) capabilities, accelerating digital adoption and service consistency across channels.
- Scalable Architecture Leadership: Defined and governed scalable, resilient application architectures to improve system reliability and operational performance.
- Cross-Functional Delivery: Partnered with business, compliance, and engineering teams to define technical scope, requirements, and delivery priorities, ensuring alignment and execution discipline.
Digital Channels Technical Architect Lead
Vodafone Egypt
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Identity & Security Architecture: Designed and rolled out enterprise Single Sign-On using OpenID Connect, strengthening security controls while improving customer and employee digital experience.
- Scalable Platform Performance: Architected high-throughput platforms supporting 10M+ monthly active users with sustained performance, resilience, and availability.
- Event-Driven & Observability Enablement: Implemented event-driven architectures with enterprise observability and monitoring, enabling real-time processing, faster incident detection, and operational transparency.
- Strategic Technology Roadmapping: Defined and governed multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business priorities, ensuring architectural consistency, scalability, and controlled evolution.
- Security & Risk Hardening: Led adoption of secure-by-design principles and automated vulnerability management, materially improving platform security and risk posture.
- Leadership & Talent Acceleration: Mentored senior technical leaders and engineers, streamlining hiring through automated assessments and optimized onboarding, reducing time-to-productivity by 50%.
Digital Channels Technical Lead
Vodafone Egypt
05.2019 - 09.2021
- Digital Growth & Adoption: Scaled digital platforms to 6M monthly active users and achieved top-10 national mobile app ranking for active users (Hootsuite, Jan 2021), reflecting strong customer engagement and market penetration.
- Business Agility & Efficiency: Reduced promotional campaign time-to-market by 300% through redesign of content and promotion layers, significantly increasing commercial responsiveness.
- Secure Integration Frameworks: Established standardized, secure third-party integration patterns, enabling rapid ecosystem expansion without compromising control or compliance.
- Engineering Productivity: Improved delivery speed and code quality through tailored Git branching strategies and optimized development lifecycle practices.
- Capability & Knowledge Scaling: Built a continuous learning culture using Spotify-style guilds and technical focus groups, accelerating skill development and organizational maturity.
R&D Software Engineering Manager
Omega Wireless
01.2019 - 08.2019
- Innovation to Revenue: Converted proprietary telecom patents into scalable digital service architectures, unlocking new revenue streams and sustainable competitive advantage.
- Agile Delivery Transformation: Defined and institutionalized agile delivery models, establishing team structures and delivering proof-of-concept platforms on time and within budget.
- Engineering Organization Build-Out: Recruited and developed core engineering teams, setting technical standards, development practices, and quality benchmarks for scalable product delivery.
Senior Software Engineer
DG-Well
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Integration Architecture: Designed and delivered a scalable shop-to-Odoo CRM integration layer for the Caresquare platform, streamlining operations and ensuring reliable end-to-end data flow.
- Technical Leadership & Quality: Mentored engineers on performance tuning and code optimization, establishing engineering best practices that materially improved code quality and stability.
- Process & Delivery Excellence: Defined and enforced structured development processes, increasing team productivity while raising quality and maintainability standards.
- Innovation & Talent Pipeline: Led structured internship and innovation programs, guiding development of internal prototypes ( Promovize) and cultivating a sustainable innovation culture.
Senior Java Consultant
Masaref BSC
09.2017 - 10.2018
- Enhanced core banking (T24) through custom Java extensions and secure API integrations.
- Modernized development infrastructure by introducing GitLab and standard version control practices.
- Enabled team productivity through targeted Git training and knowledge transfer.
Senior Software Engineer
WarriorSoft
01.2016 - 05.2018
- Delivered multiple end-to-end digital products across mobile, backend, and web platforms.
- Architected and built solutions spanning transportation tracking, on-demand services, social platforms, and network analytics.
- Demonstrated strong full-stack ownership from concept through production delivery across diverse business domains.
Product Development Engineer
Edafa Telecom Solutions
05.2014 - 01.2016
- Contributed to design and delivery of cloud-based messaging services, including backend APIs and SMS integrations.
- Participated across the full software delivery lifecycle from requirements to production support.
- Standardized build and dependency management through Maven migration and team enablement.
Software Engineer
Quad S
04.2010 - 04.2014
- Customized and extended a Java-based open-source browser to support secure, hardware-backed online transactions.
- Developed browser extensions to automate and secure sensitive data handling.
- Contributed to early-stage startup delivering innovative hardware-based internet security solutions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Helwan University
Cairo, Egypt07.2011
Skills
- Kubernetes and OpenShift experience
- DevOps practices with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD
- Architecture Patterns: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Cloud-Native Design
- Integration & Messaging: IBM CP4I, Apache Kafka, gRPC, MQTT, Avro
- Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Instana, Dynatrace, ELK Stack
- Security: OAuth20, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Secure-by-Design, Twistlock
- Development Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Security
- Quality & Performance: SonarQube, JMeter, Automated Testing
- Data & Caching: Redis, Elasticsearch
Certification
- TechXchange 2025 Speaker & Fireside Chat Participant – Featured speaker and participant in executive fireside chats with IBM VPs and worldwide CEOs
- IBM Champion – 2024
- Instructor & Course Author: "Building Scalable Systems Using Spring Boot" – Udemy, 2025
- ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Programming – September 2019
- ICAgile Certified Professional – June 2019
- IEEE Speaker – IEEE Day, American University in Cairo, October 2011
- Youth Innovation Award – Nahdet El Mahrousa, October 2011
- Made In Egypt Competition – 2nd Place Winner, September 2011
Languages
- English: Professional Working Proficiency
Key Leadership Highlights
- Strategic System Unification: Architected and executed the integration of AlRajhi Capital's siloed core systems into a unified ecosystem, enabling seamless digital channel scalability and operational resilience
- Regulatory Innovation Leadership: Pioneered the architectural foundation for kingdom-first regulatory initiatives including market-making and IPO services, positioning ARC as the market leader with first-mover advantage
- Enterprise-Scale Performance: Led digital channel transformation at Vodafone Egypt, scaling architecture to support 10M monthly active users while maintaining 99.9% uptime and optimal performance
- Team Development & Process Optimization: Built and mentored cross-functional Design and Engineering teams, implementing governance frameworks that reduced project delivery risks by 40% and improved architecture throughput
- Accelerated Time-to-Market: Transformed promotional campaign deployment processes, achieving 300% reduction in time-to-market through content layer revamping and automated CI/CD pipelines
- Talent Acquisition Innovation: Revolutionized technical hiring processes through automation and assessment optimization, reducing hiring cycles by 50% while improving candidate quality
Timeline
Solutions Lead Architect
AlRajhi Capital, NTG
01.2024 - Current
Solutions Architect
AlRajhi Capital, NTG
01.2023 - 12.2023
Digital Channels Technical Architect Lead
Vodafone Egypt
09.2021 - 12.2022
Digital Channels Technical Lead
Vodafone Egypt
05.2019 - 09.2021
R&D Software Engineering Manager
Omega Wireless
01.2019 - 08.2019
Senior Software Engineer
DG-Well
06.2018 - 05.2019
Senior Java Consultant
Masaref BSC
09.2017 - 10.2018
Senior Software Engineer
WarriorSoft
01.2016 - 05.2018
Product Development Engineer
Edafa Telecom Solutions
05.2014 - 01.2016
Software Engineer
Quad S
04.2010 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Helwan University