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Jack Ridge - Team Topologies Advocate

Jack has deep and intricate experience in technical delivery management, having supported some the UK's well known businesses across their modernization initiatives. His experienced gain from an early career in the British Army ignited a passion for understanding how teams work and interacting with each other.

He brings this experience with him to support team to deliver value faster and happier, emphasizing the importance long lived teams, sociotechnical thinking and a product centric delivery model.

He currently supports organisations to achieve fast flow and modernize their cloud estates whilst applying the constraints of Team Topologies.

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Lisa Sandleben - Team Topologies Advocate

With over a decade of experience in IT, Lisa has held roles as an organizational coach, product manager, project manager, and agile coach across various industries. She has applied the Team Topologies framework in sectors including aviation, e-commerce, retail, and mobility, working with both startups/scaleups and large enterprises. This diverse background gives her a holistic perspective on how Team Topologies can drive organizational success, improve team effectiveness, and ultimately create greater business and customer value.

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Zenon Hannick - Team Topologies Advocate

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.

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Peter Götz - Team Topologies Advocate

Peter has worked in software development teams for more than 20 years. Originally a software developer, he has worked in and with teams as a developer, software architect, Scrum Master, or Product Owner in many different domains, like media, insurance, banking, the public sector or industrial environments.

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Bryan Ross - Team Topologies Advocate

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.

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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.

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Roberta Lingnau de Oliveira - Team Topologies Advocate

I am an accomplished leader in delivery management and service excellence, with over 19 years of experience driving transformative programs in dynamic business environments. As the Head of Delivery at CI&T, I am recognized for my strategic vision, innovative approach, and ability to deliver impactful results.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thomas Krag - Team Topologies Advocate

Thomas is a long time engineer and tech lead who has transitioned into an interim engineering manager and consultant role. As an early adopter of DevOps, including DevOps Topologies (which later evolved into Team Topologies), he possesses a deep understanding of Platform Engineering and product thinking. He has successfully led multiple enabling teams in initiatives such as architecture modernization and reliability engineering practices.

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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.

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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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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.

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