Cloud adoption best practices

Tarik Elharaoui, Finance Technology Senior Director at FannieMae, leading Accounting Technology Services group. In this capacity, he is responsible for major cloud and SaaS technology platforms that support Fannie Mae accounting with over 4 trillion dollars managed guaranty book of business. He has also spearheaded multiple large-scale business and technology transformations in Finance. Tarik is a technology leader with a passion for innovation and a dedication to fostering a culture of excellence.

Joshua is the Technology Principal for Accounting and Corporate Functions covering a diverse set of People, Finance, and other Corporate Systems composed of a combination of SaaS, Enterprise, and custom applications. He has over 25 years of technology experience across many business domains in application development, integration, cloud architectures, data engineering, and pervasive automation. He is passionate about Agile Development and Testing, Serverless Architectures, DevOps, DataOps, FinOps, RegOps, AIOps, NoOps (all the Ops).

Prakash Chawda is Fannie Mae’s Product Management Senior Director for its Finance division. He has over 15 years of experience in leading Finance Transformation initiatives working with cross-functional teams across both business & technology to assess, develop and deliver on new product and business process capabilities.

In his current position, Prakash was responsible for transforming financial systems for policy/regulatory changes as well as modernizing infrastructure for accounting systems. He joined Fannie Mae in 2006 as a Business Analyst and has an engineering background with deep knowledge and expertise in Accounting and Finance.