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.

Pawel Piwosz’s journey started as SysOps, evolved through DevOps, leading to my current role as a DevOps Coach and ...well... influencer. Along the way, I've gained experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Solution Architect and Developer Advocate.

Now I am a DevOps Manager and I am happy when I can teach others, influence community, or as I'd like to say - serve the community

Andrey Adamovich is a software developer/architect/DevOps person with 25 years of experience in IT, working as an IT strategy consultant and a fractional CTO. Also, I'm trainer regularly delivering course on DevOps practices and tooling where I mention Team Topologies all the time. Also, I'm an international speaker.

Tom Peperkamp is an outcome-focused Agile Product Leader currently shaping Internal Cloud Services at Wageningen University & Research. With a rich history rooted in IT Operations and evolving through roles in SaaS product development and ITSM consultancy, Tom has consistently sought to bridge the gap between technology and business value. His journey has culminated in a deep focus on Platform Engineering, championing automated self-service IaaS/PaaS and Internal Developer Platforms as critical enablers for reducing cognitive load and accelerating flow for application teams through deliberate socio-technical system design.

Experienced technology professional currently working as a DevOps Engineer Specialist at Itaú Unibanco since 2020. Leads digital and cultural transformation within the Payments Community, driving DevOps and FinOps practices. Expertise in IaC, CI/CD, observability, and AWS services, ensuring efficient and scalable deliveries. Previously, served as DevOps Course Coordinator at Ada Tech, co-creating and managing a DevOps course, mentoring instructors, and developing educational materials.

Christopher Marsh is a socio-technical consultant who specializes in helping companies develop a culture of continuous improvement. His focus is empowering software engineering teams to produce customer value through the fast flow of software development, and during his own career as a software engineer he has been a longstanding advocate and practitioner of continuous delivery.

Ajay Chankramath is a seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience in software engineering, platform strategy, and enterprise transformation. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer and Global Managing Director for Platform & Products at Brillio, Ajay leads the firm’s efforts to deliver engineering excellence across horizontal capabilities and vertical industry solutions. He has previously held senior leadership roles at globally respected organizations such as Thoughtworks, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Broadridge, and Xilinx, consistently driving innovation in developer experience, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale modernization programs.

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.

With 20 years of experience leading high-impact projects that improve efficiency and enable fast flow, I have consistently driven successful outcomes across various industry sectors.
I am deeply curious and passionate about learning emerging trends in Software Engineering—a passion that led me to earn a PhD in Computer Science and a Master's in Electrical Engineering.

I am a strong advocate for a sustainable architecture toolkit that bridges the gap between business and technology. My approach includes evaluating core domains and cognitive load, leveraging Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), EventStorming, and Sociotechnical Architecture to drive real evolution—guided by the balance between the architecture we design and the architecture we live.

I strongly believe that successful transformations go beyond technology—they require well-structured teams, clear communication, boundaries, and continuous learning. My passion lies in helping organisations reduce complexity, create scalable architectures, and foster high-performing teams. Whether through collaborative modeling, strategic advisory, or technical leadership, I focus on creating sustainable, adaptable systems that empower teams to do their best.

I have been a strong advocate of Team Topologies for several years, as the book deeply resonated with my experience in building, leading, and scaling technology teams to deliver high-quality business outcomes.

I have led engagements with multiple clients where Team Topologies played a central role in the principles and practices I implemented, including at the Office for National Statistics, Fidelity International, and NatWest Group. Additionally, I worked as part of a consortium with Team Topologies and other organizations at the Post Office.

With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, Wesley Reisz has chaired more than 16 QCon software conferences across San Francisco, London, and New York, founded the highly respected InfoQ Podcast, and spent over a decade teaching 400-level software architecture and programming courses at the University of Louisville. These experiences have given him deep expertise in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking, alongside a broad knowledge of various software domains.

High-Performance IT Specialist | Helping Product Operations, IT Operations & IT Engineering Teams Make Better Decisions

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.

Bryan Ross is a Field CTO at GitLab, CNCF contributor, and recognised thought-leader in platform engineering. With over 15 years of industry experience as a senior IT leader and building platforms in enterprise environments, he now helps customers realise business value from IT faster. Equally comfortable speaking with executives and engineers alike, he bridges the gap between technical and business stakeholders through compelling storytelling, actionable insights, and real-world examples. Bryan’s deep expertise and practical approach make him a valuable advisor in navigating the complexities of modern platform engineering.

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.

My journey has taken me from academic research, to the public sector, to companies like KLM, Nike, ASML, and many more. In parallel to AWS, I'm a bit back at the Academy through research at the Antwerp Management School on team communication patterns, decision-making, IT/Business alignment and enterprise architecture.

Kief Morris (he/him) is an Infrastructure Automation Architect who helps infrastructure teams move from hand-crafted infrastructure management that creates friction and toil to a platform approach that focuses on enabling users to deliver better outcomes faster. An infrastructure platform approach involves adopting a composable infrastructure architecture and self-service environment management, which needs changes to team workflows and topologies.

Highly experienced Subject Matter Expert in Value Stream Management, DevSecOps, DevOps, ALM, SDLC, and IT4IT, with extensive management and consultancy experience spanning end-to-end IT disciplines since 1992. Certified in Value Stream Management, DevOps, SAFe, CMMI, ITIL, TOGAF, and PRINCE2.

Over the course of my career, I have successfully provided services and management expertise to organizations including Accenture, Cognizant, Deutsche Bank, Borland, BT, EDS (part of HP), the Met Office, and AstraZeneca.

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.