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.
Thales Faggiano - Team Topologies Advocate
High-Performance IT Specialist | Helping Product Operations, IT Operations & IT Engineering Teams Make Better Decisions
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.
Gielen Rojas-Lopez - Team Topologies Advocate
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.
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.
Barbara Arnst - Team Topologies Advocate
Barbara is a transformation leader and lifelong learner with a 25+ year career spanning both business and academia. She is currently VP at Telenet, leading the company’s Agile Transformation. Previously, she was a Principal at Bain & Company, a Partner at PE firm Gimv, and COO at Groupon, an internet scale-up.
Peter Lam - Team Topologies Advocate
I have held leadership roles such as Head of Projects, Head of Delivery, Center of Expertise (CoE) Lead (Program Delivery & Ways of Working), Program Manager, and Enterprise Agile Coach.
With a strong track record in Telco, Banking, Utilities, Retail, and Federal Government, I specialize in Transformation and Complex Delivery at scale.
My commitment to growing the industry and my track record of delivery were recognized when I was appointed the Oceania representative for the Agile20Reflect Festival, celebrating 20 years of the Agile Manifesto.
Ben Richards - Team Topologies Advocate
Coach and facilitator enabling teams to unlock their potential, focusing on strategic alignment, and sustainable change leading to cumulative transformation. Offering genuine guidance of working structures agnostic of organisation structure to cultivate autonomous, resilient and most importantly effective sustained teams with a culture of continuous improvement at their core.
Cris Cadinu - Team Topologies Advocate
With over a decade of experience spanning software development, team leadership, and strategic consulting, I have cultivated a career that blends technical expertise with a passion for organizational improvement. Currently, as a Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, I empower development teams by fostering agile mindsets, optimizing team structures, and aligning technical projects with business objectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.