Paula Kennedy - Team Topologies Advocate
Paula Kennedy - Team Topologies Advocate
Paula 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.
You can reach her in the following ways:
Team Topologies advocacy
Paula has worked in the field of Platform Engineering for more than 10 years and has witnessed first-hand how organisations struggle to break down silos and bottlenecks to enable teams to deliver value. The publication of Team Topologies in 2019 provided a clear, well-defined set of principles and practices that greatly expanded on the concepts that Paula was passionate about, such as platform as a product. Team Topologies provided a shared vocabulary for organisations to better understand how teams could work and interact more effectively.
Nearly all conference talks that Paula gives these days make reference to Team Topologies and the importance of understanding team types and interaction modes, for example her talks at DevOxx UK in 2021 and at PlatformCon 2022. Paula also founded the first FastFlowConf in 2023: a single-day conference dedicated to sharing knowledge and ideas from Team Topologies with practitioners, experts and enthusiastic beginners and growing the community.
FAST FLOW CONF - founder / organiser of this event, May 2023
“Crossing the Platform Gap" - presentation at DevOpsEnterprise Summit, Oct 2021, also ran joint ticket giveaway with TT
“The Ins and Outs of Delivering Your Platform as a Product”, Sept 2022 - webinar with Humanitec
"From Infrastructure to App Deployment: Where does a platform start and end?", - presentation at PlatformCon, June 2023
