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.
Chris Baynham-Hughes - 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.
Kevin Husell - Team Topologies Advocate
Kevin has played a pivotal role in some of the largest digital transformation projects in Finnish insurance, with a strong emphasis on agile transformation and organizational development. His extensive experience includes working with multicultural teams across Europe and India, enabling him to effectively manage and collaborate in diverse environments.
Prachi Tiwari - Team Topologies Advocate
With over 17 years of expertise in product delivery and program management across diverse industries and countries, Prachi Tiwar is a leader in driving organizational transformation. She has a strong passion for Japanese lean methodologies, utilizing tools such as Obeya for work alignment, Hoshin Kanri (Lean Value Tree) for strategic planning, and Kanban (program walls) to manage complex workflows.
Amine Essafoui - Team Topologies Advocate
Throughout my career, I have successfully facilitated organizational change by introducing Lean and Agile practices tailored to cloud-native environments. I have led cross-functional teams in designing technical solutions that balance operational efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Before joining Red Hat, I held various leadership roles at OCTO Technology, where I advanced Agile and DevOps adoption within large-scale programs. My deep understanding of value streams and team topologies enables me to align technical and organizational strategies, driving sustainable success in the digital age.
Stefan van Oirschot - Team Topologies Advocate
As a Global Solution Architect, I serve as the lead technical orchestrator for the partnership between Red Hat and our customers. In this role, customer success and the effective adoption of products and cloud services within the ecosystem are essential to achieving positive business outcomes for all parties involved.
Team Topologies is an integral part of my approach, supporting and guiding many of the conversations I have, specifically regarding the people and process aspects of the organizational operating system. This advocacy enables me to drive meaningful change and empower teams to perform at their best.
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.
Thor Bossuyt - Team Topologies Advocate
Thor Bossuyt is an Organizational Development expert skilled in driving transformative change across various industries. Specializing in product organizations and leveraging systems thinking, Thor optimizes processes, enhances performance, and cultivates a culture of continuous improvement. His extensive background includes leading major transformations at prominent companies in the media, retail, e-commerce, medtech, property, gaming, banking, and healthcare sectors. As an advocate for Team Topologies, Thor excels in guiding organizations and teams towards more effective and satisfying goal achievement.
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.
Robinson Roe - Team Topologies Advocate
Rob combines the experience of a seasoned global executive in traditional companies and two startup unicorns with a personal mission of discovering and implementing what makes organisations effective. This mission led him to complete a Master's Thesis titled "Integral Business Architecture" and to co-author the book "Giving Hope," which focuses on the not-for-profit sector. As a Director of SignalRoad, his management experience and academic research have culminated in the BookCast, "Unlocking Change," which presents the Integral Map for Organisations.
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.
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.
Alexandra Stokes - Team Topologies Advocate
In the late 90s, Alex embraced Agile methodologies as an early adopter. After several years as a consultant at ThoughtWorks, she transitioned into a role as a technology leader, advocating passionately for organisational transformation. Alex authored 'Empowering Agile Transformations - Beyond the Framework in 2023' a guide helping leaders achieve successful transformations. Her mission is to promote authentic examples and stories aligned with Agile principles, empowering organisational leaders to create create better systems of work where people love to be.
Fabio Nudge Pereira - Team Topologies Advocate
Fabio Nudge Pereira is a global keynote speaker and best selling author, TEDx Curation Leader and Futurist. With over 20 years of experience in the Tech Industry, 10 years at ThoughtWorks Australia where he acted as Digital Transformation Advisor for several clients and 5 years at Red Hat as Executive for Transformation and Open Innovation Labs.
His innovative and provoking thinking expressed in his 2 books Digital Nudge and Infobesity, the result of his post-graduation on "Technology Addiction", have allowed him to speak in Australia, USA, China, Denmark, Germany and Brazil.
Thorsten Speil - Team Topologies Advocate
Thorsten Speil is a protagonist of better ways of working - from Agile in its different forms to Team Topologies. Based in Germany, Thorsten is very happy about his active international network to exchange ideas, methods and experiences. Thorsten Speil’s commitment to better ways of working and his endorsement of Team Topologies exemplify his dedication to improving organizational outcomes.