Summary
Fannar Hermannsson is a product-oriented engineering leader with 12 years of experience delivering secure cloud and core-banking solutions for international financial institutions from Reykjavik. As Product Owner at Akkuro he has led large-scale cloud migrations (including one of the world’s largest banks), run go-live operations, and coordinated agile delivery across distributed teams in five countries. He blends hands-on engineering and SRE experience with people leadership—previously coaching agile teams, managing core banking development, and running disaster recovery and release management. Early CTO and startup experience sharpened his strategic judgment: he has paused projects when market dynamics demanded pivoting rather than over-investing. Known for making compliance-heavy, high-availability systems dependable, he excels at translating regulatory and stakeholder needs into pragmatic technical plans.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (Incomplete) Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Incomplete) Computer Science at Reykjavik University