This month I am hitting 15 Years at Morgan Stanley – and What a Tech Journey It’s Been 🚀! – and looking back, it’s hard to believe how far technology has leapt forward in that time.

When I started, IT was a world of:

• Data centers you could walk through – racks humming away like the heart of the firm.
• Applications that lived firmly on-prem, with deployment cycles measured in months.
• Monolithic codebases, waterfall project plans, and coffee-fueled overnight releases.

Today, that world looks completely different:

• Cloud-first strategies and hybrid architectures are the norm, shrinking deployment times from months to minutes.
• Microservices and APIs have replaced monoliths, enabling agility and rapid innovation.
• AI, automation, and advanced analytics are embedded into everyday workflows.
• DevOps and CI/CD pipelines keep delivery continuous, and teams closer to the business.
• Zero Trust security models and next-gen encryption protect assets in a more complex threat landscape.

In short, the pace of change hasn’t just been fast – it’s been exponential. The tools, the practices, the expectations, and even the definition of “possible” have all evolved.

I’m grateful to have witnessed – and contributed to – this transformation alongside incredible colleagues, mentors, and innovators. Here’s to the next chapter, where the only constant will be change.