Summary
Ahmed Eletol is a seasoned Head of Engineering with over 11 years of hands-on experience and more than 15 years leading cross-functional product and delivery tribes across fintech, telecom, FMCG, government, and global enterprises. He combines strategic leadership in manpower planning, budgeting, and vendor selection with deep technical judgment on architecture, RFIs/RFPs, and cloud-native microservices that prioritize high availability and cost efficiency. Known for building secure, high-performance payment platforms and loyalty systems used by Visa, Mastercard, Vodafone and major FMCG brands, he pairs pragmatic DevOps and CI/CD practices with strong security and regulatory compliance for financial products. Ahmed has repeatedly driven migrations and performance optimizations (e.g., database re-platforming and gRPC adoption) to reduce latency and operating costs while improving scalability. He is equally comfortable mentoring engineering teams and making executive-level decisions as CTO or Head of Engineering, and brings a track record of aligning technology strategy to business outcomes in complex, regulated environments. Based in Giza, Egypt, he blends enterprise experience from IBM and Upland with startup fintech leadership at Ecashat and Connect Money, making him a versatile leader who thrives on operationalizing ambitious technical visions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Minia University
Software Development Diploma, Software Development Diploma at Information Technology Institute (ITI)
English, Arabic