Jack Ridge - Team Topologies Advocate
Jack has deep and intricate experience in technical delivery management, having supported some the UK's well known businesses across their modernization initiatives. His experienced gain from an early career in the British Army ignited a passion for understanding how teams work and interacting with each other.
He brings this experience with him to support team to deliver value faster and happier, emphasizing the importance long lived teams, sociotechnical thinking and a product centric delivery model.
He currently supports organisations to achieve fast flow and modernize their cloud estates whilst applying the constraints of Team Topologies.
Lisa Sandleben - Team Topologies Advocate
With over a decade of experience in IT, Lisa has held roles as an organizational coach, product manager, project manager, and agile coach across various industries. She has applied the Team Topologies framework in sectors including aviation, e-commerce, retail, and mobility, working with both startups/scaleups and large enterprises. This diverse background gives her a holistic perspective on how Team Topologies can drive organizational success, improve team effectiveness, and ultimately create greater business and customer value.
Zenon Hannick - Team Topologies Advocate
I have been a strong advocate of Team Topologies for several years, as the book deeply resonated with my experience in building, leading, and scaling technology teams to deliver high-quality business outcomes.
I have led engagements with multiple clients where Team Topologies played a central role in the principles and practices I implemented, including at the Office for National Statistics, Fidelity International, and NatWest Group. Additionally, I worked as part of a consortium with Team Topologies and other organizations at the Post Office.
Wesley Reisz - Team Topologies Advocate
With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, Wesley Reisz has chaired more than 16 QCon software conferences across San Francisco, London, and New York, founded the highly respected InfoQ Podcast, and spent over a decade teaching 400-level software architecture and programming courses at the University of Louisville. These experiences have given him deep expertise in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking, alongside a broad knowledge of various software domains.
Thales Faggiano - Team Topologies Advocate
High-Performance IT Specialist | Helping Product Operations, IT Operations & IT Engineering Teams Make Better Decisions
Peter Götz - Team Topologies Advocate
Peter has worked in software development teams for more than 20 years. Originally a software developer, he has worked in and with teams as a developer, software architect, Scrum Master, or Product Owner in many different domains, like media, insurance, banking, the public sector or industrial environments.
Gielen Rojas-Lopez - Team Topologies Advocate
Throughout my career, I have held roles in banking service delivery, IT service management, service design, business analysis, enterprise architecture, and cloud consulting. My experience spans multiple industries in both the public and private sectors, including cloud service providers such as Microsoft and VMware.
Bryan Ross - Team Topologies Advocate
Bryan Ross is a Field CTO at GitLab, CNCF contributor, and recognised thought-leader in platform engineering. With over 15 years of industry experience as a senior IT leader and building platforms in enterprise environments, he now helps customers realise business value from IT faster. Equally comfortable speaking with executives and engineers alike, he bridges the gap between technical and business stakeholders through compelling storytelling, actionable insights, and real-world examples. Bryan’s deep expertise and practical approach make him a valuable advisor in navigating the complexities of modern platform engineering.
Val Yonchev - Team Topologies Advocate
I'm a seasoned consultant, business leader and international speaker. Experienced in transformation strategy and leadership coaching, solution design, pre-sales, sales, change and line management. I love nothing more than focusing upon improving the flow of value within an organisation and I'm often found working as a coach/ advisor, designing solutions and workshops to remove impediments to adoption or geeking out over the impact of organisational structures, team dynamics and behaviour economics. I'm passionate about doing work that matters and enabling others to do their best work.
Barbara Arnst - Team Topologies Advocate
Barbara is a transformation leader and lifelong learner with a 25+ year career spanning both business and academia. She is currently VP at Telenet, leading the company’s Agile Transformation. Previously, she was a Principal at Bain & Company, a Partner at PE firm Gimv, and COO at Groupon, an internet scale-up.
Thiago de Faria - Team Topologies Advocate
My journey has taken me from academic research, to the public sector, to companies like KLM, Nike, ASML, and many more. In parallel to AWS, I'm a bit back at the Academy through research at the Antwerp Management School on team communication patterns, decision-making, IT/Business alignment and enterprise architecture.
Peter Lam - Team Topologies Advocate
I have held leadership roles such as Head of Projects, Head of Delivery, Center of Expertise (CoE) Lead (Program Delivery & Ways of Working), Program Manager, and Enterprise Agile Coach.
With a strong track record in Telco, Banking, Utilities, Retail, and Federal Government, I specialize in Transformation and Complex Delivery at scale.
My commitment to growing the industry and my track record of delivery were recognized when I was appointed the Oceania representative for the Agile20Reflect Festival, celebrating 20 years of the Agile Manifesto.
Kief Morris - Team Topologies Advocate
Kief Morris (he/him) is an Infrastructure Automation Architect who helps infrastructure teams move from hand-crafted infrastructure management that creates friction and toil to a platform approach that focuses on enabling users to deliver better outcomes faster. An infrastructure platform approach involves adopting a composable infrastructure architecture and self-service environment management, which needs changes to team workflows and topologies.
Roberta Lingnau de Oliveira - Team Topologies Advocate
I am an accomplished leader in delivery management and service excellence, with over 19 years of experience driving transformative programs in dynamic business environments. As the Head of Delivery at CI&T, I am recognized for my strategic vision, innovative approach, and ability to deliver impactful results.
Ben Richards - Team Topologies Advocate
Coach and facilitator enabling teams to unlock their potential, focusing on strategic alignment, and sustainable change leading to cumulative transformation. Offering genuine guidance of working structures agnostic of organisation structure to cultivate autonomous, resilient and most importantly effective sustained teams with a culture of continuous improvement at their core.
Stephen Walters - Team Topologies Advocate
Highly experienced Subject Matter Expert in Value Stream Management, DevSecOps, DevOps, ALM, SDLC, and IT4IT, with extensive management and consultancy experience spanning end-to-end IT disciplines since 1992. Certified in Value Stream Management, DevOps, SAFe, CMMI, ITIL, TOGAF, and PRINCE2.
Over the course of my career, I have successfully provided services and management expertise to organizations including Accenture, Cognizant, Deutsche Bank, Borland, BT, EDS (part of HP), the Met Office, and AstraZeneca.
Cris Cadinu - Team Topologies Advocate
With over a decade of experience spanning software development, team leadership, and strategic consulting, I have cultivated a career that blends technical expertise with a passion for organizational improvement. Currently, as a Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, I empower development teams by fostering agile mindsets, optimizing team structures, and aligning technical projects with business objectives.
Narendra Tumkur - Team Topologies Advocate
Naren is a seasoned Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of experience, passionate about identifying the right problems to solve and designing lasting, effective solutions. His consulting career has spanned a wide array of industries—from Mining and Fintech to Insurance, Media, and M&A—giving him a unique perspective on diverse business and technical challenges.
Mateusz Szymczyk - Team Topologies Advocate
I am a motivated professional and Subject Matter Expert in the Observability domain, known for my ability to structure business problems effectively and resolve cases quickly and diligently. With strong technical skills and extensive experience working with international teams, I remain focused on achieving goals and consistently strive to exceed project milestones and expectations.
Hayli Hay - Team Topologies Advocate
Leading people, teams, and companies is my calling. I thrive on building relationships and cross-org partnerships that calm chaos, ease decision making, carry out change, and elevate performance. It excites me to develop strategies that reimagine how work is performed and unite people to get it done. Throughout my career I have joined organizations that are going through significant people, process, and technology changes. Regardless of the subject matter, my leadership agility becomes the north star that guides people through complex challenges to achievement of enterprise goals.