Jorge Castro is a global transformation leader who drives enterprise agility, DevOps, SRE, and AI innovation across 20+ countries. With 12+ years of experience spanning software delivery, leadership, and coaching, he enables holistic strategies that deliver measurable business impact. A sought-after international speaker, Jorge shares practical insights on testing automation, continuous delivery, and AI adoption. Guided by a people-first philosophy centered on productivity, improvement, innovation, and joy, he inspires organizations to build sustainable cultures of excellence and continuous transformation.

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 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 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.

Tom is a product-driven technology leader with over a decade of experience helping organizations improve how they design, build, and operate software at scale. His background spans platform engineering, DevOps, Agile delivery, and operating model design, with hands-on experience in complex enterprise environments across both the public and private sector.

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 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 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.

Ivan is Director of Engineering at CROZ, author of BizTech Evolution, and host of the 0800-DEVOPS podcast. He has been part of the team that grew CROZ from a small group into a successful BizTech consultancy with over four hundred people, eventually expanding internationally. This journey has given him the opportunity to view software delivery challenges from different perspectives and use this experience to identify and eliminate friction in both internal operations and client collaborations.

Particularly interested in leadership and organizational change, Ivan helps organizations align business and technology, focus their efforts, and work smarter, not harder. His areas of special interest include DevOps culture, the sociotechnical nature of software delivery, and pragmatic AI applications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.