Summary
Martyn Ranyard is an experienced engineering leader and Infrastructure/SRE specialist with 14 years of hands-on and managerial experience building resilient cloud platforms across high-growth fintech and SaaS companies. Currently Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin, he has previously led and scaled DevOps and SRE functions at Meister, Qonto/Penta, Forto and HelloFresh, often creating teams and frameworks from scratch. He combines strategic planning (3–5 year platform roadmaps, cost and capacity optimisation) with practical delivery—introducing GitOps, Terraform, observability replacements and multi-cloud architectures. Known for strong people leadership, his teams have repeatedly ranked him highly in manager satisfaction and he mentors managers on OKRs, career ladders and promotion structures. He brings diligence in compliance and audits (ISO27001, c5) alongside merger-driven tooling consolidation with zero downtime. Outside the org chart he’s a maker-minded operator who still enjoys tinkering with IoT and open tooling approaches.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer