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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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Audun Fauchald Strand - Team Topologies Advocate

For the last seven years I have worked at NAV, the central organization in the Norwegian welfare state. We are undertaking a major modernisation, writing our way out of 40 year old legacy systems, and creating a modern organization that can work for the next 40 years.

My main interest is flow, and my main tools to increase flow in teams has been platform engineering. I have been a part of teams that have created the nais.io platform, that has increased flow for NAV, and soon other governmental organizations in Norway.

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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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Michael Plöd - Team Topologies Advocate

Michael is a Fellow at INNOQ, working as a consultant, coach, and trainer with over 20 years of experience. His current areas of focus include Domain-driven Design, Team Topologies, socio-technical architectures, and transforming IT delivery organizations towards collaboration and loosely coupled teams. Michael is the author of the book “Hands-on Domain-driven Design - by Example” on Leanpub, and the translator of the book Team Topologies into German for O’Reilly. He is also a regular speaker at national and international conferences.

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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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Jonny Williams - Team Topologies Advocate

Jonny Williams is a Platform Specialist at Red Hat and author of "Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value". Prior to joining Red Hat, he was Head of Delivery at Homes England. Jonny also provides coaching at DeliverValue.uk

Having enabled teams to deliver value for over ten years, he now supports organisations to uncover effective modern approaches to work and understand the impact of Open Source technology.

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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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Joep Piscaer - Team Topologies Advocate

Joep has been deeply influenced by the concepts of flow, toil, and handovers since learning about LEAN in 2009. He quickly realized that organizational challenges cannot be solved with more technology alone. This understanding led him to appreciate Team Topologies, which connects the dots between organizational flow and happy engineers. Joep now leads a "DevOps culture but for Data" initiative at Helixiora, integrating technology, organizational flow, and culture for clients. Additionally, he works as an independent contractor, focusing on marketing messaging and positioning for technology vendors in the cloud and infrastructure space. Joep co-organizes DevOpsDays in the Netherlands and the Fast Flow NL meetup.

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Donna Benjamin - Team Topologies Advocate

Donna facilitates team success by leading and energizing people to perform their best and get the job done. She enjoys working closely with clients to uncover and understand their true requirements, ensuring the delivery of value that makes a meaningful difference. Currently, Donna is the product owner of the Open Practice Library and serves as a Senior Engagement Lead at Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs.

Throughout her career, Donna has held various leadership roles in the Australian Open Source community, serving on boards and committees, and organizing events. She also prepares and delivers customized keynote sessions that inspire and motivate people to take their first step into the future.

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Cansu Kavili Örnek - Team Topologies Advocate

Cansu is a Solution Architect at Red Hat. She works with organizations to bring people, processes, and technology together in the most efficient way to solve complex business problems. Specifically, she collaborates organizations to build internal platforms tailored to their needs and forms high-performing platform teams. Cansu provides technical leadership in platform services to simplify stream-aligned teams' entry into the ecosystem and supports business stakeholders in understanding high-level strategies for their platforms and applications.

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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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Kim Nena Duggen - Team Topologies Advocate

As an organizational architect in the field of New Work, self-organization and (IT) strategy, Kim is in her element when she works with people who want to do something themselves instead of being satisfied with theory or sample solutions. Depending on the situation, she switches between consultant, coach or trainer - depending on which individual challenges with the client require tailor-made solution strategies. Kim has introduced Team Topologies in several talks, articles and customer projects since 2020 (primarily in the DACH-Region).

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Chris Richardson - Team Topologies Advocate

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is the author of POJOs in Action and the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.

Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and is the author of the book Microservices Patterns. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his Eventuate, an open-source microservices collaboration platform. In his spare time, Chris enjoys cooking, good food and tennis.

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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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Thorsten Speil - Team Topologies Advocate

Thorsten Speil is a protagonist of better ways of working - from Agile in its different forms to Team Topologies. Based in Germany, Thorsten is very happy about his active international network to exchange ideas, methods and experiences. Thorsten Speil’s commitment to better ways of working and his endorsement of Team Topologies exemplify his dedication to improving organizational outcomes.

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Brian Graham - Team Topologies Advocate

Brian founded BuildingBetterTeams.de out of his ambition to craft organisations that set a new standard for what great culture, process, product and technology looks like. Team Topologies has been a natural fit for his work in surfacing specific but sometimes hidden opportunities and practical steps to raise the bar. He became a Team Topologies Advocate to engage better with a community of people who understand the ways to Build Better Teams.

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Daniel Kocot - Team Topologies Advocate

Daniel has been part of the codecentric team since October 2016. Since the beginning of 2022 he has worked as Senior Solution Architect at the Dortmund branch. Starting as a consultant with a focus on application lifecycle management, his focus shifted more and more towards APIs. In addition to numerous customer projects and his involvement in the open source world around APIs, our Head of API Consulting is also a frequent speaker at conferences.

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Fred Wynyk - Team Topologies Advocate

Fred is a Senior Engineering Manager and a Team Topologies Advocate. Working in technology since 2006 has shaped his background in performance, scalability and reliability. With strong experience on improving business growth through engineering practices like DevOps and SRE, Fred has led teams with focus on Platform, Security and Backend. As a Team Topologies advocate, he has written several articles expanding on his experience applying Team Topologies principles.

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