Wesley Reisz - Team Topologies Advocate
Wesley Reisz - Team Topologies Advocate
With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, Wesley Reisz has chaired more than 16 QCon software conferences across San Francisco, London, and New York, founded the highly respected InfoQ Podcast, and spent over a decade teaching 400-level software architecture and programming courses at the University of Louisville. These experiences have given him deep expertise in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking, alongside a broad knowledge of various software domains.
Currently, Wes is a Technical Principal Consultant at Equal Experts, specializing in application modernization and platform engineering. He embodies the concept of a T-shaped engineer—blending broad expertise across software domains with deep technical knowledge of the cloud-native ecosystem—and strongly believes in the transformative power of speaking, teaching, and continuous learning.
Before joining Equal Experts, Wes held technical leadership roles at:
Thoughtworks, where he focused on cloud and modernization
VMware, as a Tanzu Platform Architect specializing in Spring, Kubernetes, and developer paths to production
An edge-related startup, where he served as VP of Technology, driving innovation at the edge
You can reach Wes via:
Team Topologies Advocacy
Although Wes was introduced to Team Topologies during his time at QCon, his active advocacy for these concepts grew during his tenure as a consultant at Thoughtworks. As Wes explains,
"Every time I engaged with a client, it became abundantly clear that the first draft of your architecture is truly your team structure. The thinking around fast flow and team topologies has become core to how I approach software solutions today."
