Dries Dams - Team Topologies Advocate
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.
Today, at BRYXX, Dries guides clients through technical assessments, workshops, and maturity roadmaps—bridging infrastructure automation with clear team responsibilities and improved ways of working. His focus is on building sustainable platform teams, reducing cognitive load, and enabling fast flow—always with an emphasis on practical, impactful outcomes.
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Team Topologies Advocacy
Team Topologies has become a cornerstone of Dries Dams’ approach in recent years. It offers the clarity and structure needed to help teams overcome long-standing friction—especially in environments where DevOps practices are still maturing or misunderstood. He applies Team Topologies extensively to coach platform teams, design effective team interactions, and support adaptive organizational design.
Dries regularly reflects on these experiences through his blog, damsdri.me, where he writes about platform strategy, infrastructure-as-code, and the human side of software delivery. Public writing has helped sharpen his thinking and foster more meaningful conversations—something he hopes to continue as a Team Topologies Advocate.
Much of his content is created within the context of client engagements, where Team Topologies forms the foundation for improvement. Over the past few years, Dries has developed a “Two-Lane Approach” that combines the technical dimension (platform engineering) with the organizational dimension (based on Team Topologies). This integrated view offers a strategic framework for growing IT departments in a sustainable way. While this material is not yet publicly available, it is shared in private conversations and workshops. He has applied this approach successfully with small enterprise clients in Belgium and has upcoming engagements in the Netherlands.
For broader insights, Dries publishes regularly on his blog, including articles on Internal Developer Platforms and Team Topologies. These posts are also shared through weekly updates on LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Bluesky.
