Michel Andrade de Souza - Team Topologies Advocate
Michel Andrade de Souza - Team Topologies Advocate
Michel is a technology professional with over 25 years of experience leading engineering, architecture, data, and platform teams. His career includes tenures at prominent companies such as Accenture, Itaú BBA, TOTVS, JSL, Riachuelo, Raízen, Renner, Burger King (Zamp), and Myralis Pharma.
As an expert in digital transformation and technical department structuring, he specializes in building scalable, secure solutions that drive business value. He possesses extensive experience in managing CAPEX/OPEX budgets exceeding R$ 20M/year.
He leads transformations that bridge technology and strategy, having structured software engineering and solution architecture areas for digital products at ZAMP, Renner, Raízen, Myralis, and WayCarbon. Michel has a proven track record of building multidisciplinary agile squads from the ground up, defining technological roadmaps, and implementing best practices that successfully balance governance with rapid execution.
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Team Topologies Advocacy
Beyond his executive leadership, Michel is a dedicated practitioner focused on solving the structural friction often found in large-scale and highly regulated environments. Throughout his trajectory, he has tackled real-world challenges such as excessive dependencies, organizational bottlenecks, and the misalignment between strategy and delivery. His approach is deeply rooted in designing teams oriented toward value streams, clarity of responsibilities, and the reduction of cognitive load.
As an advocate for the Team Topologies model, Michel focuses on translating these concepts into pragmatic contexts for companies undergoing transformation. He has hands-on experience implementing stream-aligned, enabling, and platform teams, while utilizing interaction modes to accelerate learning and sustainable scale. For Michel, Team Topologies is more than an organizational framework; it is a continuous lens for technical leadership and the evolution of adaptive, high-performance organizations.
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