Team Topologies Advocate program
Fred quickly embraced the principles outlined in the Team Topologies book as an early adopter. In 2019, he watched a presentation from Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on Cognitive Load which motivated him to read the book promptly after. Subsequently, he arranged a workshop on Team Topologies together with Manuel Pais, which took place in November 2019 in Berlin. Since then, Fred has integrated his learnings of the Team Topologies concepts into his role as an Engineering Manager.
Read MoreAndy Spamer is an agile coach, delivery lead, and scrum master with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and technology delivery. He is passionate about helping organisations adopt agile methods and practices that optimise team interactions for fast flow and value delivery.
He is the founder of Agile Dimensions, a consultancy that has worked with global clients in the mining, oil & gas, finance, and government sectors. Andy is also a member of the Twenty2 Collective, a network of independent agile professionals.
Read MoreChris is a senior consultant for TeamForm which specialises in enabling large complex organisations to visualise their cross-functional teams (including Team Topology team types and interaction modes). Chris has almost 20 years working in technology with a focus on financial services. He's worked in 4 continents and is planning his move back to Australia after many years living abroad.
Read MorePiotr Kacała is a Chief Technology Product Officer and Board Member with 20 years of commercial experience in building product teams and products that are loved by people worldwide. Previously, he was a senior technology and product leader in companies like Displate, CD Projekt, and GOG.com.
Piotr helps people and companies build modern product organizations and transform them into a product operating model using the strategic pyramid, continuous discovery, continuous delivery, and, yes, Team Topologies.
Read MorePaula Kennedy is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntasso, the makers of Kratix: an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. With over 20 years of experience in tech working for VMware, Pivotal, CloudCredo and more, Paula is part of the organising committee for DevOpsDays London, Kubernetes Community Days UK, FastFlowConf, and the London Platform User Group.
Paula is an Ambassador for Open UK, a Team Topologies Advocate and a regular speaker at several conferences and meetups. In her spare time, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.
Read MoreEduardo is a Team Topologies Advocate based in Brazil and has been working within the Brazilian technology sector since 2004, for different companies, from small brazilian startups like Medicinia, Repassa, and GetNinjas - to larger companies - like R7.com, Creditas, Nubank, Will Bank, and iFood. Since 2015, Eduardo has been leading managers and ICs, and is always looking to apply new management and self-management principles and concepts while focusing on architecture topics like socio-technical systems, DDD, and Team Topologies. Eduardo is a firm believer in the product engineering mindset, with software engineers focused on delivering customer and business value.
Read MoreAndy is a senior engineering manager, and over the last few years has worked at one of the UK's most successful unicorn start-ups, one of the big high-street retailers, and now at Y Combinator backed start-up Prolific - a company changing the way we do research online.
At every step of this journey, he's focused on pragmatic ways of working, meaningful change that sticks, and working with teams to help them to get better at how they deliver. A big fan of the socio-technical side of agile, he firmly understands that developing software is a people thing.
Read MoreAbby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.
Abby is an international keynote speaker, Team Topologies Advocate, and co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.
Read MoreIn 2019, while working with Brent from The Phoenix Project and reading up on DevOps, in desperate need for ideas to improve his ways of working and organisational problems, Toli went to a local tech conference in Manchester. Among the buzzword noise, he came across a talk about an upcoming book titled "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow". Gosh. This is exactly what they needed at his then current business! A few weeks later, with the book launched, Toli was starting at a small, ambitious startup called cinch - an attempt at digital automotive 2.0. While building out the teams, Toli mentioned the book to the CPO and before they knew it, they had the books on all of their desks.
Read MoreJacob is an agile coach in an Enabling Team who actively advocates for agile practices and organizational transformations. He shares his expertise through various channels, including blogs, workshops, and talks. Jacob's workshops empower participants to embrace agile methodologies and implement concepts such as Team Topologies. Meanwhile, his conference talks inspire a wider audience by highlighting the benefits of organizational transformation. Through his advocacy efforts, Jacob contributes to the industry's knowledge exchange and promotes the adoption of best practices for successful agile transformations.
Read MoreAleix Morgadas found in Team Topologies the values and vocabulary to a help organizations to introduce change with teams and people at core. Since then, he has been an active practitioner and advocate in each organization and community he has been involved.
Aleix has been sharing his learnings on practical Team Topologies experiences on his personal blog as well on public talks.
Read MoreA physicist by training, Robert has long-time experience in the software business. Starting as a developer he worked in many different engineering and leadership roles. In the last years, his task was to establish a DevOps community in a big European bank and to help improve the ways of working for engineering teams as a coach and trainer.
He became interested in TeamTopologies early and helped to make it more known also to a German speaking audience in various talks and articles.
Read MoreRichard Bown first read Team Topologies in 2022 and was immediately struck by its ability to connect so many of the dots that he’d identified over the course of his software engineering careerIn his work as an independent consulting DevOps engineer, Richard provides context for teams overloaded with requests, systems and responsibilities. He provides practical, day-to-day support and enablement and takes product-based, humanistic approaches to internal platforms and software delivery using Team Topologies’ ideas.
Read MoreErica has been inspired by Team Topologies ever since she read the book 3 years ago. When she got her first mission as Agile Coach for MIVB (public transport Brussels) in December 2021, Erica took the opportunity to use TT vocabulary & insights to give a 'Cloud Team' focus, build a Platform as a Product and align first Stream Aligned Teams to attain faster flow fo value in the organization.
Read MoreBMK Lakshminarayanan is an inspiring and passionate Team Topologies Advocate and also a DevOps Advocate and Value Stream Architect promoting Team Topologies, DevOps, Lean and Value Stream Management principles & practices. He is also a New Zealand ambassador for the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) and DevOps Institute and a Board Advisor for the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC).
Read MoreBillie Thompson is a Lead Consulting Engineer at Armakuni
Billie Thompson specialises in Cloud Native software development, DevOps and Day to day Operations. With a background spanning multiple programming languages Billie is a true polyglot developer, comfortable architecting microservice applications, building and supporting infrastructure platforms and coaching teams to adopt new technologies and practices. She’s worked with multiple existing codebases utilising DevOps to drive team transformation, setting up systems to allow teams to continue to experiment their way to success and create a sustainable culture of continuous learning.
She enjoys public speaking, having given multiple talks on Kubernetes, Team Topologies and using API Contracts; and writing blogs, most recently on Value Stream Mapping and Pair Programming.
Read MoreVictoria Shakspeare is a passionate advocate of Team Topologies because it places people back at the heart of organisation decision making. She loves working with people at all levels of a company, giving them a shared vocabulary to help them articulate their blockers to flow.
Read MoreRadek Orszewski – is a seasoned agility practitioner with almost 20 years of international experience in software products development and services delivery working in Germany, Poland, and teams in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Read MoreBen is a keen advocate of Team Topologies and speaks regularly at all levels within organizations and as part of the public community.He is co-organiser of the Fast Flow Conf (https://www.fastflowconf.com), the first public event of its kind to focus on the approach and methodologies described in Team Topologies
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