Our Mission
Resolving the Conflict Between Speed and Compliance
European engineering teams face an impossible choice every day: move fast on US cloud platforms and accept the compliance risk, or build compliant infrastructure from scratch and watch competitors ship while you're still configuring. This isn't a technology problem — it's a structural one.
The NIS2 directive is expanding the number of regulated companies from 4,500 to over 30,000 in Germany alone — and 160,000 across the EU. Technical compliance is now a board-level priority with personal liability for management. The gap between what teams need and what the market offers has never been wider.
runtiq proves you don't have to choose between shipping fast and staying compliant. A sovereign managed container runtime — as fast as bare metal, as simple as modern PaaS — with compliance built into the architecture. Six months of platform engineering, compressed to five minutes.
Our Story
Born from the European Financial Industry
Picture this: a 12-person engineering team at a European bank ships a new microservice. The code review takes a day. The security review takes a week. The compliance review? Four months. By the time the service reaches production, the business requirements have already changed. We lived this reality for over seven years — building multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms where every deployment was a negotiation between engineering velocity and regulatory obligation.
Across banking and insurance, we watched the same story repeat. Talented teams spending 70% of their time on platform engineering that had nothing to do with their actual product. The same security policies implemented from scratch. The same compliance evidence packages assembled by hand. The same audit conversations, again and again.
We founded runtiq to make this pain disappear — to productize the hard-won patterns we'd battle-tested under real regulators, and turn years of infrastructure expertise into a platform any team can deploy in minutes.
By the Numbers
The Experience Behind the Platform
Years in regulated environments
Combined years of infrastructure engineering
Production deployments in regulated environments
Regulated industries served
The Founders
Meet the People Behind runtiq
Together, 12+ years building platforms under banking and insurance regulators — and a shared frustration that became a company.
Daniel
Seven years deep in Kubernetes, nine years in cloud and container infrastructure — almost all of it inside European banking and insurance institutions. Daniel pioneered multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms in environments where a single misconfiguration could trigger a regulatory incident. He founded runtiq because he was tired of watching brilliant engineering teams spend months rebuilding the same compliant infrastructure from scratch.
Markus
Twenty-four years of IT engineering and consulting, building enterprise infrastructure since 2002 — long before Kubernetes existed. Markus has spent over a decade inside highly regulated financial environments, turning complex compliance requirements into platforms that engineers actually want to use. He co-founded runtiq to prove that "compliance-ready" and "developer-friendly" don't have to be opposites.
Our Values
What Drives Every Decision
Sovereign by Design
Your data, your jurisdiction, your rules. runtiq is an Austrian-founded team running European infrastructure — no US parent entity, no foreign data access laws, no surprises in the fine print.
Compliant by Default
NIS2, DORA, GDPR — not features we bolted on, but principles we built from. Compliance is in the architecture, so when auditors come, you're prepared.
Fast. Really Fast.
Five-minute onboarding. Pipelines that start building instantly — no waiting for runners, no reinstalling packages every time. Infrastructure that performs, so your product does too.
Built to Be Simple
We handle the complexity so you don't have to. Everything works out of the box — hosting, CI/CD, security, monitoring. No frameworks to assemble, no infrastructure to manage. Just build your product.
Where We Are
Based in Austria , Hosted in the EU
runtiq
Operated as a sole proprietorship — Austrian registered business
- European legal entity
- European infrastructure
- European jurisdiction
Why Us
Why We Can Do This
Building a sovereign platform isn't just an engineering challenge — it requires knowing what regulators actually expect.
Financial Industry DNA
We didn't read about banking compliance in a whitepaper — we lived it. Over twelve years building platforms under real regulators at banking and insurance companies. We've passed the audits, answered the questions, and know what "compliant by design" actually means in practice.
Decades of Engineering
31+ combined years of infrastructure engineering — from pioneering multi-cluster Kubernetes in European banking to building enterprise platforms since 2002. We've seen what scales and what breaks, what passes audit and what doesn't.
European by Choice
Sovereignty isn't a feature flag — it's a corporate structure decision. runtiq is operated by an Austrian registered business with European founders, European infrastructure, and European jurisdiction. No US parent company, no CLOUD Act exposure by design, no asterisks.
Talk to the Founders
We built runtiq from 12 years in European banking and insurance. Whether you're navigating NIS2, evaluating sovereign infrastructure, or just tired of rebuilding platform engineering — let's talk.
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