Eduardo Matos - Team Topologies Advocate
Eduardo is a Team Topologies Advocate based in Brazil and has been working within the Brazilian technology sector since 2004, for different companies, from small brazilian startups like Medicinia, Repassa, and GetNinjas - to larger companies - like R7.com, Creditas, Nubank, Will Bank, and iFood. Since 2015, Eduardo has been leading managers and ICs, and is always looking to apply new management and self-management principles and concepts while focusing on architecture topics like socio-technical systems, DDD, and Team Topologies. Eduardo is a firm believer in the product engineering mindset, with software engineers focused on delivering customer and business value.
Andy Norton - Team Topologies Advocate
Andy is a senior engineering manager, and over the last few years has worked at one of the UK's most successful unicorn start-ups, one of the big high-street retailers, and now at Y Combinator backed start-up Prolific - a company changing the way we do research online.
At every step of this journey, he's focused on pragmatic ways of working, meaningful change that sticks, and working with teams to help them to get better at how they deliver. A big fan of the socio-technical side of agile, he firmly understands that developing software is a people thing.
Abby Bangser - Team Topologies Advocate
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.
Abby is an international keynote speaker, Team Topologies Advocate, and co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.
Toli Apostolidis - Team Topologies Advocate
In 2019, while working with Brent from The Phoenix Project and reading up on DevOps, in desperate need for ideas to improve his ways of working and organisational problems, Toli went to a local tech conference in Manchester. Among the buzzword noise, he came across a talk about an upcoming book titled "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow". Gosh. This is exactly what they needed at his then current business! A few weeks later, with the book launched, Toli was starting at a small, ambitious startup called cinch - an attempt at digital automotive 2.0. While building out the teams, Toli mentioned the book to the CPO and before they knew it, they had the books on all of their desks.
Jacob Duijzer - Team Topologies Advocate
Jacob is an agile coach in an Enabling Team who actively advocates for agile practices and organizational transformations. He shares his expertise through various channels, including blogs, workshops, and talks. Jacob's workshops empower participants to embrace agile methodologies and implement concepts such as Team Topologies. Meanwhile, his conference talks inspire a wider audience by highlighting the benefits of organizational transformation. Through his advocacy efforts, Jacob contributes to the industry's knowledge exchange and promotes the adoption of best practices for successful agile transformations.
Aleix Morgadas - Team Topologies Advocate
Aleix Morgadas found in Team Topologies the values and vocabulary to a help organizations to introduce change with teams and people at core. Since then, he has been an active practitioner and advocate in each organization and community he has been involved.
Aleix has been sharing his learnings on practical Team Topologies experiences on his personal blog as well on public talks.
Robert Ruzitschka - Team Topologies Advocate
A physicist by training, Robert has long-time experience in the software business. Starting as a developer he worked in many different engineering and leadership roles. In the last years, his task was to establish a DevOps community in a big European bank and to help improve the ways of working for engineering teams as a coach and trainer.
He became interested in TeamTopologies early and helped to make it more known also to a German speaking audience in various talks and articles.
Richard Bown - Team Topologies Advocate
Richard Bown first read Team Topologies in 2022 and was immediately struck by its ability to connect so many of the dots that he’d identified over the course of his software engineering careerIn his work as an independent consulting DevOps engineer, Richard provides context for teams overloaded with requests, systems and responsibilities. He provides practical, day-to-day support and enablement and takes product-based, humanistic approaches to internal platforms and software delivery using Team Topologies’ ideas.
Erica Engelen - Team Topologies Advocate
Erica has been inspired by Team Topologies ever since she read the book 3 years ago. When she got her first mission as Agile Coach for MIVB (public transport Brussels) in December 2021, Erica took the opportunity to use TT vocabulary & insights to give a 'Cloud Team' focus, build a Platform as a Product and align first Stream Aligned Teams to attain faster flow fo value in the organization.
BMK Lakshminarayanan - Team Topologies Advocate
BMK Lakshminarayanan is an inspiring and passionate Team Topologies Advocate and also a DevOps Advocate and Value Stream Architect promoting Team Topologies, DevOps, Lean and Value Stream Management principles & practices. He is also a New Zealand ambassador for the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) and DevOps Institute and a Board Advisor for the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC).
Billie Thompson - Team Topologies Advocate
Billie Thompson is a Lead Consulting Engineer at Armakuni
Billie Thompson specialises in Cloud Native software development, DevOps and Day to day Operations. With a background spanning multiple programming languages Billie is a true polyglot developer, comfortable architecting microservice applications, building and supporting infrastructure platforms and coaching teams to adopt new technologies and practices. She’s worked with multiple existing codebases utilising DevOps to drive team transformation, setting up systems to allow teams to continue to experiment their way to success and create a sustainable culture of continuous learning.
Victoria Shakspeare - Team Topologies Advocate
Victoria Shakspeare is a passionate advocate of Team Topologies because it places people back at the heart of organisation decision making. She loves working with people at all levels of a company, giving them a shared vocabulary to help them articulate their blockers to flow.
Radek Orszewski - Team Topologies Advocate
Radek Orszewski – is a seasoned agility practitioner with almost 20 years of international experience in software products development and services delivery working in Germany, Poland, and teams in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Ben Dodd - Team Topologies Advocate
Ben is a keen advocate of Team Topologies and speaks regularly at all levels within organizations and as part of the public community.He is co-organiser of the Fast Flow Conf (https://www.fastflowconf.com), the first public event of its kind to focus on the approach and methodologies described in Team Topologies