Davide Rovati - Team Topologies Advocate
Davide studied linguistics and spent the first few years of his career in product teams working on Natural Language Processing projects at Google.
From there, he moved on to startups and now consulting, leading teams at the intersection of business and technology.
His main focus nowadays is to bring product management principles and practices into the world of data teams.
Valéria Catherine Zavadzki Santos - Team Topologies Advocate
Valéria is an Agile Team Coach and IT Project Leader at Bosch Digital with nearly 15 years of experience in international projects, digital products, and agile leadership across the automotive and technology industries. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Engineering, an MBA in Project Management, and a Master’s in Informatics. Her career spans roles at Renault Group, AnyMarket, Volvo Trucks, and Bosch, where she have led multicultural teams, chassis development projects, SAP programs, and digital product initiatives.
John Wilson - Team Topologies Advocate
John is currently a Senior Agile Coach at Booking.com. He is passionate about technical excellence and whole team approaches to ways of working that enable sustainable fast flow of value. Previously, as a Director of Technology for an M&A firm, he defined technology roadmaps for acquired companies, led cloud migration programmes and achieved regulatory compliance in safety-critical industries. His earlier career includes founding a consultancy focused on Extreme Programming and DevOps, and as a developer for one of the largest European aviation maintenance software providers.
Giuliano Bem Hur Firmino - Team Topologies Advocate
Giuliano is a Socio-Technical Architect, Solution, Data and AI. He’s been working in software development since 2001 across desktop, mobile, web, cloud, data, and AI platforms. He’s been studying Team Topologies in depth since 2022. During this time, he’s been publishing on LinkedIn, writing articles on the subject, and eventually has plans to publish a book on socio-technical architecture.
Ivan Krnic - Team Topologies Advocate
Ivan is Director of Engineering at CROZ, author of BizTech Evolution, and host of the 0800-DEVOPS podcast. He has been part of the team that grew CROZ from a small group into a successful BizTech consultancy with over four hundred people, eventually expanding internationally. This journey has given him the opportunity to view software delivery challenges from different perspectives and use this experience to identify and eliminate friction in both internal operations and client collaborations.
Particularly interested in leadership and organizational change, Ivan helps organizations align business and technology, focus their efforts, and work smarter, not harder. His areas of special interest include DevOps culture, the sociotechnical nature of software delivery, and pragmatic AI applications.
Jason Roberts - Team Topologies Advocate
Jason is a software engineering leader with 16 years of experience in software development. Over that time I’ve worked in full-stack, DevOps, backend and architecture. He served as a technical lead and technical director and his core competencies are SOLID software design, cloud and distributed architecture, and automation. These are grounded in systems thinking, continuous improvement, and the Socratic method. He loves solving problems and have a sociotechnical lens with which he's doing it.
Stefania Chaplin - Team Topologies Advocate
Stefania specialises in cultivating clear, effective communication that unites teams and leaders across all levels of an organisation. With a background in security and development, she has led multi-million pound projects and managed diverse, multicultural teams across a range of industries and countries. Her approach breaks down communication barriers, aligns groups, and creates shared understanding - driving collaboration, efficiency, and better decision-making. Stefania helps organisations foster a culture of transparency and trust, enabling teams to work together more effectively and achieve meaningful results.
Durga Kar - Team Topologies Advocate
Durga leads global capabilities across all regions at IG Group, a global leader in online trading and investments. With over 22 years of experience in technology leadership, he has held key roles ranging from transformational lead and architect to delivery manager, across multiple geographies and domains.
Known for implementing innovative, scalable solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth, Durga is a T-shaped professional who brings both depth and breadth of expertise. He believes that leadership in technology goes beyond execution—it's about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and innovation.
Dimitris Perdikou - Team Topologies Advocate
I’m the Government Chief Engineer, with over 10 years of experience in technology leadership roles—particularly focused on data analytics and cloud technologies. I’m passionate about using data and cloud to turn information into valuable insights that support critical business needs.
Throughout my career, I’ve taken on a range of roles, including Developer, Scrum Master, Architect, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Product Owner, and Chief Technology Officer. This variety has given me a broad perspective on both technical and organisational challenges, and I’m currently focused on driving both technical and cultural change across engineering teams in the UK Public Sector.
Sonal Premi - Team Topologies Advocate
Sonal Premi brings a broad and multidisciplinary background to her work in technology and business transformation. She specialises in helping executives and senior managers understand their key drivers and challenges, shaping technology solutions that create real business value.
Sonal began her career with hands-on experience in safety-critical software systems, and then transitioned into management consulting, where she focussed on business and operational effectiveness, assessing ways of working and recommending structural and process improvements to enhance software delivery.
Sébastien Van De Poel - Team Topologies Advocate
Sébastien Van De Poel is a technical lead with experience in different roles. He intentionally took a position as a Functional Analyst and also as a Solution Architect because I believe collaboration gets better when you really understand each other's work. “Putting yourself in another's shoes helps create empathy”. Over time, he realized the Solution Architect role was limiting team autonomy. Now, he focuses more on helping teams collaborate, communicate openly, and continuously improve.
Dries Dams - Team Topologies Advocate
Dries Dams is a platform engineer and DevOps consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience helping organizations enhance their IT delivery and team effectiveness.
For 10 years, he worked at the Flemish Parliament, where he supported the full transition from a traditional IT department to a DevOps-driven organization. During this time, he held roles as both a system engineer and Scrum Master, contributing to cultural and technical transformation across teams and platforms.
Pawel Piwosz - Team Topologies Advocate
Pawel Piwosz’s journey started as SysOps, evolved through DevOps, leading to my current role as a DevOps Coach and ...well... influencer. Along the way, I've gained experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Solution Architect and Developer Advocate.
Now I am a DevOps Manager and I am happy when I can teach others, influence community, or as I'd like to say - serve the community
Andrey Adamovich - Team Topologies Advocate
Andrey Adamovich is a software developer/architect/DevOps person with 25 years of experience in IT, working as an IT strategy consultant and a fractional CTO. Also, I'm trainer regularly delivering course on DevOps practices and tooling where I mention Team Topologies all the time. Also, I'm an international speaker.
Tom Peperkamp - Team Topologies Advocate
Tom Peperkamp is an outcome-focused Agile Product Leader currently shaping Internal Cloud Services at Wageningen University & Research. With a rich history rooted in IT Operations and evolving through roles in SaaS product development and ITSM consultancy, Tom has consistently sought to bridge the gap between technology and business value. His journey has culminated in a deep focus on Platform Engineering, championing automated self-service IaaS/PaaS and Internal Developer Platforms as critical enablers for reducing cognitive load and accelerating flow for application teams through deliberate socio-technical system design.
Subroto Bose - 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.
Christopher Marsh - Team Topologies Advocate
Christopher Marsh is a socio-technical consultant who specializes in helping companies develop a culture of continuous improvement. His focus is empowering software engineering teams to produce customer value through the fast flow of software development, and during his own career as a software engineer he has been a longstanding advocate and practitioner of continuous delivery.
Ajay Chankramath - Team Topologies Advocate
Ajay Chankramath is a seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience in software engineering, platform strategy, and enterprise transformation. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer and Global Managing Director for Platform & Products at Brillio, Ajay leads the firm’s efforts to deliver engineering excellence across horizontal capabilities and vertical industry solutions. He has previously held senior leadership roles at globally respected organizations such as Thoughtworks, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Broadridge, and Xilinx, consistently driving innovation in developer experience, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale modernization programs.
Dolphy Fernandes - Team Topologies Advocate
As a Technology Director of Architecture and Platform Engineering with over 10 years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams and driving digital transformation initiatives, I am deeply committed to optimizing team structures and fostering collaborative, adaptive environments. Throughout my career, I’ve been focused on building agile, cross-functional teams that deliver innovative solutions while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency. In my role, I also lead the Efficiency program across the Business unit, driving process improvements, collaboration and efficiencies through the organization.