Ahmed Galal

Chief Technology Officer at Payten Egypt | 10+ years of experience and proven leadership skills |Focused on digital transformation and empowering Financial entities in egypt

Egypt

About

Seeking a Challenging position in a startup or established technology company where I can help achieve strategic objectives and make the best utilization of the current workforce

Experience

  • Payten Egypt (Full-time · 5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

      ● Lead a team of highly qualified Solution Engineers, System Architects, Domain (Banking) Consultants and Business Analysts to support Sales opportunities from RFI from clients till finalizing implementation. ● Drive technology adoption in the Egyptian markets through strategic partnerships with technology companies and professional services providers. ● Educate internal and external stakeholders about Payten technology and industry specific products and solutions. ● Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivering of IT projects to market. ● Exercise independent judgment and discretion in overall project management by prioritizing, planning and tracking project progress. ● Consult with internal departments to identify customer needs and include into project objectives. ● Empower and develop the staff you manage to innovate and improve while maximising their contribution by setting clear objectives, coaching, delegating, and providing appropriate feedback.

    • Head of Technology
      Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      ● Ensuring that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs. ● Manage and directs development teams. Evaluates employee performance, sets expectations and goals for department and individual staff members, recruits, disciplines, and trains staff. ● Acting as a mentor to team leaders in both technology and project management departments. ● Staying on top of technology trends and developments. ● Oversee the Design, develop and modification programs, including prototypes. ● Provide support regarding product development to internal departments.

  • Head of Technology at IT complex Solutions
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    ● Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards. ● Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company. ● Managing technology budgets and time frames. ● Support colleagues across the organisation to deliver their objectives. ● Participating in sales activities, demos to potential clients and explaining features and functionalities from both business and technical prospective. ● Overseeing the Design, develop and modification of our software. ● supporting product development with the technical teams. ● Driving the technical part of the company through COVID-19 crisis which needed a lot of changes in policies and practices to comply with the lookdowns procedures and the massive changes that happened in both markets and technology. ● Preparing the company and the team to change to the new management under Asseco/Payten International group and making sure that everything complies with the internal procedures and method of the new management. ● Coding a tool to convert our Software code base for the software to comply with newer versions of Java. ● Convert company’s Code Generator Tool to generate newer Version of Java Code

  • Java Technical Lead at Crossworkers -Egypt
    Dec 2016 - Mar 2017 · 4 mos

  • Credit Guarantee Company Egypt (Egypt)
    • Lead Java Developer
      Jan 2013 - Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Technical  Part of Develop, Test, Maintain and support The internally developed Systems  Part of Existing Systems troubleshooting and debugging.  Part of Creating new Systems and components using ( oracle ADF - Business Components ) and integrating it with the older systems  Analyzing new business requirements  Design software solutions for the New Business Processes  Architecting various Business Layer and Data Management components and Subsystems over J2EE architecture For HR Solutions  Part of Enhancing UI and improving user experience Over Current systems  Design and develop Oracle relational databases Stored Procedures and PL/SQL  Build A Dynamic web-based reporting system using (java - Ajax -SAP Crystal Reports)  Build and upgrade the Financial Monitoring system Administration  Monitor the performance of new team members and give performance reports  Assign tasks on team members and monitor achievement rates  Help the team implement new components and fix bugs  Making quarterly and yearly reports on performance  Help the company quality team create new KPI’s to assess the performance levels of various departments of company

    • Senior Java Developer
      Oct 2010 - Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

       Develop, Test, Maintain and support The internally developed Systems  Existing Systems troubleshooting and debugging.  Creating new Systems and components using ( oracle ADF - Business Components ) and integrating it with the older systems  Monitor and Maintain effective software documentation.  Creating a Desktop Java Application to act as a reports server  Analyzing new business requirements  Design software solutions for the New Business Process  Architecting various Business Layer and Data Management components and Subsystems over J2EE architecture For Hr Solutions  Enhancing UI and improving user experience Over Current systems  Involved in R&D for the running systems for adding new business processes and enhancing the current ones  Deploying and managing Oracle Application Server and WebLogic Application serve  Design and develop Oracle relational databases Stored Procedures and PL/SQL  Analyze - design - build A Dynamic web-based reporting system using (java - Ajax -SAP Crystal Reports)  Analyze - design - build a Financial Monitoring system that comply with the Egyptian Accounting Principles  Developing unified login component for all systems to be used as a service internally for the newly created systems

    • Junior Java Developer
      Jan 2009 - Oct 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

       Implementing and updating internal web based system using (struts - ejb2)  Oracle Database maintenance  Oracle Database developing  Creating and Editing reports using Crystal report  Implementing and updating web based interactive internal site using PHP  Implementing Ticketing system for internal users to interact with company services  working in documenting the undocumented obsolete systems with the team  Helping in data Migration between Different Databases (Sybase to Oracle)  analyzing and designing and Implementing a KPI system for the Departments  implementing indexing and calendar as a service to be attached to the core business System  implementing simple BI screens to help the decision maker get an overview of the company performance