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semen arslan - Team Topologies Advocate

Serving as the Sr. Product Manager, passionately dedicated to advancing organizational effectiveness throughout her career journey. Acknowledged with the Agile and Digital Transformation Award in 2017, she views accolades as collaborative achievements.

Since her career's inception - 2009, Semen has immersed herself in Open Source, Agile, and Lean practices. Over the past decade, she has quietly evolved into a prolific speaker, sharing insights through more than 25 presentations at respected conferences such as Agile Alliance XP, SPM, TopConf etc.

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Caco Mafra - Team Topologies Advocate

Caco Mafra is a Mentor and Management Expert for tech companies, specializing in enabling fast flow using agile management practices. He is a leading authority on agile management and Kanban in Brazil, with extensive experience at prominent tech companies like RDStation, Totvs, Senior, and ContaAzul. At these companies, Caco successfully implemented management strategies that supported scalable growth, with a focus on results and leadership development. He is the author of three books and a sought-after speaker at major management events in Brazil.

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Anna Ciula - Team Topologies Advocate

With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, Anna brings her technical program management expertise to her role as a Product Delivery Coach at Stellafai. She is passionate about empowering product teams to deliver impactful solutions that leverage technology to drive positive change.

Anna fosters cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle, from strategy to execution. She blends Agile, Lean, DevOps, Team Topologies, and Design Thinking to achieve successful, product-oriented outcomes for customers.

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Michael Plöd - Team Topologies Advocate

Michael is a Fellow at INNOQ, working as a consultant, coach, and trainer with over 20 years of experience. His current areas of focus include Domain-driven Design, Team Topologies, socio-technical architectures, and transforming IT delivery organizations towards collaboration and loosely coupled teams. Michael is the author of the book “Hands-on Domain-driven Design - by Example” on Leanpub, and the translator of the book Team Topologies into German for O’Reilly. He is also a regular speaker at national and international conferences.

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Steve Pereira - Team Topologies Advocate

Steve Pereira has spent over two decades improving the flow of work across organizations. His career spans tech support, IT management, build and release engineering, and serving as a founding CTO for enterprise SaaS. Currently, he is the lead consultant for Visible Flow Consulting, a board advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium, Chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability technical committee, and co-founder of the Flow Collective, which unites flow-focused professionals. Since 2017, he has been developing and facilitating Flow Engineering to make flow improvement in large organizations accessible, collaborative, and actionable.

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Cansu Kavili Örnek - Team Topologies Advocate

Cansu is a Solution Architect at Red Hat. She works with organizations to bring people, processes, and technology together in the most efficient way to solve complex business problems. Specifically, she collaborates organizations to build internal platforms tailored to their needs and forms high-performing platform teams. Cansu provides technical leadership in platform services to simplify stream-aligned teams' entry into the ecosystem and supports business stakeholders in understanding high-level strategies for their platforms and applications.

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Joris Swinnen - Team Topologies Advocate

Joris Swinnen is a member of The Flow Hive, a collective of independent Team Topologies enthusiasts. As an enterprise agility coach, trainer in facilitative leadership, and expert in Learning & Development and Organization Design, he combines learning agility acceleration with Solution-Focused coaching.

With over a decade of experience as a creative management consultant working with many blue-chip product and service organizations, Joris fosters innovation by improving team effectiveness. He is framework-agnostic, direct, provocative yet empathetic, and has supported and held similar organizations accountable.

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Chris Richardson - Team Topologies Advocate

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is the author of POJOs in Action and the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.

Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and is the author of the book Microservices Patterns. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his Eventuate, an open-source microservices collaboration platform. In his spare time, Chris enjoys cooking, good food and tennis.

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