Anna Ciula - Team Topologies Advocate

July 17, 2024 Ana Ciobotaru

With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, Anna brings her technical program management expertise to her role as a Product Delivery Coach at Stellafai. She is passionate about empowering product teams to deliver impactful solutions that leverage technology to drive positive change. Anna fosters cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle, from strategy to execution, blending Agile, Lean, DevOps, Team Topologies, and Design Thinking to achieve successful, product-oriented outcomes for customers.

Previously, Anna built and coached high-performing teams at Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs, specializing in Platform-as-a-Product (PaaS) and cloud-native transformations.

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Team Topologies Advocacy

A strong advocate for Team Topologies, Anna champions structuring cloud-native product teams for ownership, collaboration, and faster decision-making. She empowers platform teams to adopt a product operating model, actively promoting the Platform-as-a-Product approach for optimized internal platform management. Her commitment to the open-source community is further evidenced by co-authoring a Platform-as-a-Product workshop available through Miroverse.

Public Talks: Anna has delivered talks focusing on Team Topologies principles and their real-world applications, especially in adopting the platform-as-a-product approach:

Platform as a Product Workshop on Miroverse: Anna published a workshop on Miroverse designed to help teams understand platform team and Platform-as-a-Product concepts and support them in creating a roadmap for their platform journey:

Platform as a Product Workshop

Community Engagement: Anna actively participates in online discussions and panels, sharing how Team Topologies concepts are applied with customers: