Walid Ibrahim

Lead global product engineering organization responsible for Carta’s Equity Management and Cap Table platform generating $350M ARR, serving 50,000 companies and 3M stakeholders worldwide.

Key achievements:

• Lead 40-engineer distributed R&D organization across North America, Europe, and Latin America spanning 7 product teams with multiple layers of leadership including Engineering Managers and a Director of Engineering.
• Own engineering delivery for Carta’s core equity management platform, supporting $7–8B annual financial transactions and 150k+ yearly equity exercises.
• Directed migration of 1,200 international companies (180k stakeholders) from the Capdesk platform following acquisition, building scalable migration tooling and operational dashboards.
• Integrated Capdesk engineering organization and restructured teams into domain-focused product groups enabling international expansion and multi-entity cap table capabilities.
• Partner with CEO, CPO, CFO and Legal leadership on product strategy, international compliance, and roadmap planning for Carta’s core product platform.
• Reduced enterprise customer onboarding time to 3–5 days and lowered engineering support load to
• Manage $6M engineering compensation budget, recruiting and scaling teams including 12+ engineers and engineering managers.
• Maintain executive relationships with strategic partners including Morgan Stanley, contributing $2–3M annual partnership revenue.
• Led transformation toward AI-native software development, introducing Claude-based coding assistants, agent-driven development patterns, and internal AI tooling improving developer productivity and onboarding.

• Established and led Rogers’ regional 5G Innovation Lab, connecting the company with the startup ecosystem and research community in Waterloo Region.
• Built partnerships with startups and enterprise customers, launching 5G-enabled product MVPs and new business models.
• Managed $3.5M R&D collaboration budget with University of Waterloo supporting multiple research initiatives.
• Generated new enterprise partnerships including $500k in innovation contracts with organizations such as BMO.
• Led software development initiatives in smart-city and IoT domains delivering multiple 5G pilot solutions.

• Led two engineering teams responsible for DevOps tooling and enterprise integrations.
• Scaled teams from 3 to 8 engineers while implementing agile processes and structured performance management.
• Managed sprint planning, delivery roadmaps, and defect prioritization for enterprise retail customers.

• Led new product development initiatives within NAVBLUE’s Flight Operations software division.
• Managed distributed engineering teams building aviation operations software used by global airlines.
• Led development of FlightOps innovation portfolio, launching multiple new solutions including N-FlightTracking.
• Built strategic partnerships with airlines including AirAsia and easyJet.
• Introduced design thinking and lean startup methods for product development and experimentation.
• Earlier role: Senior Software Engineer developing aviation software solutions used by commercial airlines worldwide.

• Developed medical imaging software supporting clinical systems using Java and healthcare interoperability standards.