Edith A. Hughes D.Sc. - Team Topologies Advocate
Edith is a trusted advisor to executives and an experienced strategic designer and facilitator. She has successfully guided enterprise leaders and cross-functional teams through digital transformation in the federal and non-profit sectors.
With 25 years of federal consulting experience, Edith has supported a wide range of large, complex civilian agencies. Her expertise spans innovation, Agile methodologies, business and IT integration, information architecture, and digital design.
Jorge Castro - Team Topologies Advocate
Jorge Castro is a global transformation leader who drives enterprise agility, DevOps, SRE, and AI innovation across 20+ countries. With 12+ years of experience spanning software delivery, leadership, and coaching, he enables holistic strategies that deliver measurable business impact. A sought-after international speaker, Jorge shares practical insights on testing automation, continuous delivery, and AI adoption. Guided by a people-first philosophy centered on productivity, improvement, innovation, and joy, he inspires organizations to build sustainable cultures of excellence and continuous transformation.
Kirill Klimov - Team Topologies Advocate
Kirill has over 20 years of experience leading product and technology delivery, building strong teams, and helping organizations scale across e-commerce, SaaS, and banking. He works with tech startups and scaleups, as well as larger companies aiming to operate with a startup mindset, to bring clarity, structure, and scalable delivery.
Eduardo Anzai - Team Topologies Advocate
Eduardo is a professional with over 25 years of experience, including the past 15 years serving as a Trusted Advisor, leading digital transformation initiatives and cloud adoption programs for major national and global enterprises across diverse industries such as Finance, Banking, Insurance, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Retail, Government, Healthcare, and the Public Sector. He works directly with C-level executives to propose new business models and technology roadmaps that drive greater efficiency, reliability, and scalability across the organization.
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.
Tom Slenders - Team Topologies Advocate
Tom is a product-driven technology leader with over a decade of experience helping organizations improve how they design, build, and operate software at scale. His background spans platform engineering, DevOps, Agile delivery, and operating model design, with hands-on experience in complex enterprise environments across both the public and private sector.
Valéria Catherine Zavadzki Santos - Team Topologies Advocate
Valéria is an Agile Team Coach and IT Project Leader at Bosch Digital with nearly 15 years of experience in international projects, digital products, and agile leadership across the automotive and technology industries. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Engineering, an MBA in Project Management, and a Master’s in Informatics. Her career spans roles at Renault Group, AnyMarket, Volvo Trucks, and Bosch, where she have led multicultural teams, chassis development projects, SAP programs, and digital product initiatives.
John Wilson - Team Topologies Advocate
John is currently a Senior Agile Coach at Booking.com. He is passionate about technical excellence and whole team approaches to ways of working that enable sustainable fast flow of value. Previously, as a Director of Technology for an M&A firm, he defined technology roadmaps for acquired companies, led cloud migration programmes and achieved regulatory compliance in safety-critical industries. His earlier career includes founding a consultancy focused on Extreme Programming and DevOps, and as a developer for one of the largest European aviation maintenance software providers.
Durga Kar - Team Topologies Advocate
Durga leads global capabilities across all regions at IG Group, a global leader in online trading and investments. With over 22 years of experience in technology leadership, he has held key roles ranging from transformational lead and architect to delivery manager, across multiple geographies and domains.
Known for implementing innovative, scalable solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth, Durga is a T-shaped professional who brings both depth and breadth of expertise. He believes that leadership in technology goes beyond execution—it's about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and innovation.
Dries Dams - Team Topologies Advocate
Dries Dams is a platform engineer and DevOps consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience helping organizations enhance their IT delivery and team effectiveness.
For 10 years, he worked at the Flemish Parliament, where he supported the full transition from a traditional IT department to a DevOps-driven organization. During this time, he held roles as both a system engineer and Scrum Master, contributing to cultural and technical transformation across teams and platforms.
Dolphy Fernandes - Team Topologies Advocate
As a Technology Director of Architecture and Platform Engineering with over 10 years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams and driving digital transformation initiatives, I am deeply committed to optimizing team structures and fostering collaborative, adaptive environments. Throughout my career, I’ve been focused on building agile, cross-functional teams that deliver innovative solutions while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency. In my role, I also lead the Efficiency program across the Business unit, driving process improvements, collaboration and efficiencies through the organization.
Nick Perry - Team Topologies Advocate
My expertise spans across Fortune 100 enterprises and pioneering space companies, where I have successfully built and led hardware design teams, and integrated agile practices to enhance project delivery and operational efficiency. My strategic approaches leverage the principles of Team Topologies to optimize team interactions and software delivery processes, significantly enhancing flow and adaptability within these organizations.
Gielen Rojas-Lopez - Team Topologies Advocate
Throughout my career, I have held roles in banking service delivery, IT service management, service design, business analysis, enterprise architecture, and cloud consulting. My experience spans multiple industries in both the public and private sectors, including cloud service providers such as Microsoft and VMware.
Val Yonchev - Team Topologies Advocate
I'm a seasoned consultant, business leader and international speaker. Experienced in transformation strategy and leadership coaching, solution design, pre-sales, sales, change and line management. I love nothing more than focusing upon improving the flow of value within an organisation and I'm often found working as a coach/ advisor, designing solutions and workshops to remove impediments to adoption or geeking out over the impact of organisational structures, team dynamics and behaviour economics. I'm passionate about doing work that matters and enabling others to do their best work.
Barbara Arnst - Team Topologies Advocate
Barbara is a transformation leader and lifelong learner with a 25+ year career spanning both business and academia. She is currently VP at Telenet, leading the company’s Agile Transformation. Previously, she was a Principal at Bain & Company, a Partner at PE firm Gimv, and COO at Groupon, an internet scale-up.
Narendra Tumkur - Team Topologies Advocate
Naren is a seasoned Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of experience, passionate about identifying the right problems to solve and designing lasting, effective solutions. His consulting career has spanned a wide array of industries—from Mining and Fintech to Insurance, Media, and M&A—giving him a unique perspective on diverse business and technical challenges.
Hayli Hay - Team Topologies Advocate
Leading people, teams, and companies is my calling. I thrive on building relationships and cross-org partnerships that calm chaos, ease decision making, carry out change, and elevate performance. It excites me to develop strategies that reimagine how work is performed and unite people to get it done. Throughout my career I have joined organizations that are going through significant people, process, and technology changes. Regardless of the subject matter, my leadership agility becomes the north star that guides people through complex challenges to achievement of enterprise goals.
Malte Fiala - Team Topologies Advocate
With an unconventional background in Digital Arts, Malte Fiala brings 21 years of experience in the IT industry. Over the past seven years, he has honed his expertise in enterprise architecture (EA), with a specialization in socio-technical architecture, data architecture, and DevOps/cloud-native solutions. Currently, Malte focuses on AI strategy consulting through his firm, Spacelike AI GmbH.
Sheen Brisals - Team Topologies Advocate
At my core, I am an engineer. As a business and technology enabler, I bring decades of experience in building distributed systems, adopting modern technologies for faster flow, and growing high-performing, autonomous teams. Throughout my extensive career, I’ve worked with enterprises of various scales, actively sharing knowledge through writing and public speaking. My current focus lies in cloud technologies, AWS, and serverless architecture. As an AWS Hero, I have the opportunity to reach a global audience, assisting them on their cloud and serverless journeys.
Brad Legge - Team Topologies Advocate
An accomplished and dynamic Product Delivery Leader with a successful track record leading complex global digital transformation programmes for FTSE 100 companies. Building teams and programmes grounded in customer insight and data driven product development, Agile ways of working and Lean portfolio management.