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.
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.
Neil Douek - Team Topologies Advocate
Neil is an engineer and strategist at the intersection of Intelligence, Process and Technology. He is a platform practitioner who turns complex technical ecosystems into practical, scalable developer experiences at the intersection of culture, technology, and creativity. At OTTRA he focuses on CNI integrations and capability discovery signals that surface team maturity and platform health, enabling governance, observability, and AI‑assisted automation. He spent three years at Fujitsu UVANCE leading go‑to‑market for Application Modernisation and Platform Engineering products, delivering transformation outcomes across key verticals.
Davide Rovati - Team Topologies Advocate
Davide studied linguistics and spent the first few years of his career in product teams working on Natural Language Processing projects at Google.
From there, he moved on to startups and now consulting, leading teams at the intersection of business and technology.
His main focus nowadays is to bring product management principles and practices into the world of data teams.
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.
Giuliano Bem Hur Firmino - Team Topologies Advocate
Giuliano is a Socio-Technical Architect, Solution, Data and AI. He’s been working in software development since 2001 across desktop, mobile, web, cloud, data, and AI platforms. He’s been studying Team Topologies in depth since 2022. During this time, he’s been publishing on LinkedIn, writing articles on the subject, and eventually has plans to publish a book on socio-technical architecture.
Dimitris Perdikou - Team Topologies Advocate
I’m the Government Chief Engineer, with over 10 years of experience in technology leadership roles—particularly focused on data analytics and cloud technologies. I’m passionate about using data and cloud to turn information into valuable insights that support critical business needs.
Throughout my career, I’ve taken on a range of roles, including Developer, Scrum Master, Architect, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Product Owner, and Chief Technology Officer. This variety has given me a broad perspective on both technical and organisational challenges, and I’m currently focused on driving both technical and cultural change across engineering teams in the UK Public Sector.
Sonal Premi - Team Topologies Advocate
Sonal Premi brings a broad and multidisciplinary background to her work in technology and business transformation. She specialises in helping executives and senior managers understand their key drivers and challenges, shaping technology solutions that create real business value.
Sonal began her career with hands-on experience in safety-critical software systems, and then transitioned into management consulting, where she focussed on business and operational effectiveness, assessing ways of working and recommending structural and process improvements to enhance software delivery.
Sébastien Van De Poel - Team Topologies Advocate
Sébastien Van De Poel is a technical lead with experience in different roles. He intentionally took a position as a Functional Analyst and also as a Solution Architect because I believe collaboration gets better when you really understand each other's work. “Putting yourself in another's shoes helps create empathy”. Over time, he realized the Solution Architect role was limiting team autonomy. Now, he focuses more on helping teams collaborate, communicate openly, and continuously improve.
Tom Peperkamp - Team Topologies Advocate
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.
Christopher Marsh - Team Topologies Advocate
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 - Team Topologies Advocate
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.