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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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Miguel Angel Lopez Gil - Team Topologies Advocate

I have 25 years of experience in IT, working across large organizations with a focus on digitalization, product management and agile delivery. As an Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Expert, I've had the chance to contribute to some meaningful initiatives, like a multi-year lean-agile transformation and helping to set up a dual operating model. At Roche, I founded the first Global SAFe Community of Practice, where I brought together a passionate team and trained over 500 people in agile methods. Additionally, I’ve enjoyed designing and implementing new team topologies to support high-performing teams and drive lasting, positive change within the organization.

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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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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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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.

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Ryan Sheldrake - Team Topologies Advocate

Ryan has 25 years of experience in various roles, including Operator, Architect, and CTO. With 15 years of banking and payments experience and 10 years in the security realm, Ryan enjoys solving complex problems in organizations across EMEA. A seasoned public speaker on security, DevOps, transformation, and team-focused sessions, Ryan is passionate about team cultures and communications.

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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.

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Truls Jørgensen - Team Topologies Advocate

With a background as a developer, Truls, as a principal engineer, strives to balance his time between writing software in teams and building a team-first, product-oriented organization. He believes that creating a sustainable, adaptable organization is essential for teams to develop services that can evolve over time. As the first official in-house developer at NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) in 2016, Truls has played a central role in transforming and modernizing digitalization efforts.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Joris Swinnen - Team Topologies Advocate

Joris Swinnen is a member of The Flow Hive, a collective of independent Team Topologies enthusiasts. As an enterprise agility coach, trainer in facilitative leadership, and expert in Learning & Development and Organization Design, he combines learning agility acceleration with Solution-Focused coaching.

With over a decade of experience as a creative management consultant working with many blue-chip product and service organizations, Joris fosters innovation by improving team effectiveness. He is framework-agnostic, direct, provocative yet empathetic, and has supported and held similar organizations accountable.

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Krzysztof Hałasa - Team Topologies Advocate

Krzysztof Hałasa is a management advisor specializing in IT operating models and platform engineering. With over 10 years of experience in various roles including developer, architect, manager, and consultant, he has primarily worked in the banking sector.

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Stef Cuisinier - Team Topologies Advocate

Stef’s passion is organization design. Ever since he discovered the Team Topologies book in 2019, he started advocating and using this pattern language in his coaching and training work.  One of his goals is to extend the use of Team Topologies outside the IT world as a source of inspiration to support more humane, non-hierarchical organization design. Starting his professional life in IT, Stef fulfilled a diverse spectrum of roles, from software developer and analyst to project manager and IT leader.

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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.

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