Summary
Martin Ritchie is a software engineer and hands-on technology leader with 19 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across five industries, from fintech and gaming to e-commerce and mixed reality. Currently at Meta for Work, he helps define OS, APIs and tooling for enterprise VR adoption while previously driving large-scale ML and data pipelines at Amazon that processed tens of millions of updates daily. He has a track record of taking products from concept to scale—founding roles, interim CTO and running his own e-commerce venture—while architecting CI/CD, cloud infrastructure and high-throughput services. Comfortable at all layers of the stack, Martin combines deep distributed-systems expertise (AMQP, high TPS pipelines) with product-minded leadership that empowers partners and teams. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow and brings a rare blend of startup grit and large-company operational rigor.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Glasgow