Richard Bown - Team Topologies Advocate

Richard Bown - Team Topologies Advocate

In his roles as an independent software consultant, tech lead, and software architect, Richard catalyses organisations and teams towards designing and building sustainable and resilient software architectures.

His writing includes recognising and managing extraneous cognitive load, the role of the individual in the Team Topologies organisation as well as about the first Fast Flow conference in May 2023:

• A human-first approach to problem-solving where we look to avoid categorising people and instead understand traits of behaviour

• Exploring cognitive load to avoid team toxicity

• Thoughts and reaction to the Fast Flow conference in 2023

Richard is a co-organiser of the Netherlands Fast Flow meetup.

You can reach him in the following ways:

• Website

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Mastodon

Team Topologies advocacy

Richard 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 career.

In 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.