Summary
Ryan Grenz is a seasoned DevOps leader with 16 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native platforms for enterprise customers across finance, utilities and media. Currently leading DevOps at Evelyn Partners, he architects modular, Terraform-driven Azure AKS platforms with GitOps, ZeroTrust security and automated Concourse pipelines to enable scalable self-service for development teams. His background includes taking Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes platforms to production at Fidelity and driving multi-tenant AKS/Rancher onboarding at Thames Water, combining hands-on coding (Python, Go, Bash) with platform architecture and CI/CD tooling. He has a long history of mentoring teams in Agile practices, pairing on test-driven automation and establishing clear RBAC/PIM controls to reduce operational friction. Known for open collaboration, he makes platform evolution visible via public Git repos and trains teams to contribute directly, which has consistently accelerated adoption and reduced support demand. Based in Reading, he blends practical engineering with governance-minded security design, often surfacing small operational improvements that deliver outsized reliability gains.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer