A physicist by training, Robert has long-time experience in the software business. Starting as a developer he worked in many different engineering and leadership roles. In the last years, his task was to establish a DevOps community in a big European bank and to help improve the ways of working for engineering teams as a coach and trainer.

He became interested in TeamTopologies early and helped to make it more known also to a German speaking audience in various talks and articles.

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 careerIn 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.

Erica has been inspired by Team Topologies ever since she read the book 3 years ago. When she got her first mission as Agile Coach for MIVB (public transport Brussels) in December 2021, Erica took the opportunity to use TT vocabulary & insights to give a 'Cloud Team' focus, build a Platform as a Product and align first Stream Aligned Teams to attain faster flow fo value in the organization.

BMK Lakshminarayanan is an inspiring and passionate Team Topologies Advocate and also a DevOps Advocate and Value Stream Architect promoting Team Topologies, DevOps, Lean and Value Stream Management principles & practices. He is also a New Zealand ambassador for the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) and DevOps Institute and a Board Advisor for the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC).

Billie Thompson is a Lead Consulting Engineer at Armakuni

Billie Thompson specialises in Cloud Native software development, DevOps and Day to day Operations. With a background spanning multiple programming languages Billie is a true polyglot developer, comfortable architecting microservice applications, building and supporting infrastructure platforms and coaching teams to adopt new technologies and practices. She’s worked with multiple existing codebases utilising DevOps to drive team transformation, setting up systems to allow teams to continue to experiment their way to success and create a sustainable culture of continuous learning.

Radek Orszewski – is a seasoned agility practitioner with almost 20 years of international experience in software products development and services delivery working in Germany, Poland, and teams in Europe, Asia, and the USA.

Ben is a keen advocate of Team Topologies and speaks regularly at all levels within organizations and as part of the public community.He is co-organiser of the Fast Flow Conf (https://www.fastflowconf.com), the first public event of its kind to focus on the approach and methodologies described in Team Topologies