Kal Motawi

Head of Cloud Architecture and Engineering, Agentic Solutions Delivery

Caylent

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

Leading an expert team of cloud architects and engineers based in the US, Canada, Latin America, and India.
Creating Agentic AI platforms to accelerate solution design and delivery.

Managing Director - Technology Advisory Services | Technology Enablement | Data & Analytics

Slalom

Mar 2020 - Apr 2025 (5 years 2 months)

• Led a group of practices spanning technology strategy, innovation, product engineering, platform engineering, solution ownership, DevOps, MLOps, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• Grew technology practice revenues from $40M to $80M+ in annual revenue.
• Hired technical staff, developed managers, and coached leaders through advanced leadership development programs.
• Originated a delivery quality program for a $200M+ practice, providing onboarding, metrics, intervention, and training, delivering measured improvements in client outcomes.
• Managed the market rollout of nearshore consulting services, closing a company-leading managed services engagement and generating a $90M pipeline within 12 months.
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Senior Director - Digital Solutions | Technology Enablement

Slalom

Mar 2016 - Mar 2020 (4 years 1 month)

• As a technology advisor, guided enterprise clients through the transition from early automation efforts to scaled cloud engineering capabilities.
• Led a merger of multiple teams into a combined practice spanning engineering, infrastructure, and collaboration.
• As a business development leader, originated multiple $5M+ cloud, data, and product engineering accounts for the Chicago market.

Director - Cross-Market Delivery

Slalom

Mar 2013 - Mar 2016 (3 years 1 month)

• Led an engineering team through the transformation from a 30-person local practice to a national delivery center with 100 engineers and architects and $20M+ in annual revenue.
• Created the first Slalom DevOps team, originating service offerings and leading practices.
• Developed digital products for clients across retail, financial services, healthcare, agriculture, and technology.

Sr. Enterprise Architect | Technical Practice Manager | Practice Area Lead

Slalom

Mar 2010 - Mar 2013 (3 years 1 month)

• Originated key aspects of Slalom’s product engineering practice company-wide including remote development using Agile with cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and adoption of tech-oriented culture.

Senior Director, Product Mangement

Univa Corporation

Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Univa was a venture-backed startup (based in Lisle, IL) founded by the leaders of the Globus grid computing platform to commercialize their technology.
• Defined the product roadmap and released the initial version of the UniCluster product.
• Defined first-generation data management and virtualized service management products based on an open-source technology platform.
• Worked closely with a leading investment bank to define a hardware and software virtualization platform for desktop and HPC applications.

Founder and Principal

KKM Consulting Inc

Jan 2002 - Jan 2010 (8 years 1 month)

• Led the design, development, and deployment of a high-frequency trading toolkit, which implemented real-time market analysis, order management, automated position hedging, and trade simulation. Successfully implemented a series of profitable fixed-income arbitrage trades.
• For a startup futures exchange, designed and developed graphical interfaces for real-time trading and risk management and a messaging service for data exchange.
• Published a paper on quality of service in grid computing based on research performed with Argonne National Labs.
• Advised on features and architecture for a small-business ERP platform.

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Product Director | Director of Strategic Consulting

eTime Capital

Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)

eTime Capital was a Silicon-Valley startup funded by Mayfield and Deutsche Bank, focused on the improvement of receivables management through automation.
• Hired a team of experts responsible for consultative selling and service implementation.
• Led the creation of a business plan, defining our relationship with our lead investor and business partner.
• Defined a new product that adapted the eTime Capital technology to the requirements of B2B marketplaces.

Director of Technology, Professional Services | Consulting Manager | Business Development Manager

Netscape Communications

Jan 1995 - Jan 2000 (5 years 1 month)

Led the design of implementation methodologies for a global consulting practice.

Managing Principal Consultant | Product Marketing Manager | Developer

Oracle Corporation

Jan 1989 - Jan 1994 (5 years 1 month)

Designed, developed, and led the first client implementations of a new ERP module for projects.

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