Thomas is a long time engineer and tech lead who has transitioned into an interim engineering manager and consultant role. As an early adopter of DevOps, including DevOps Topologies (which later evolved into Team Topologies), he possesses a deep understanding of Platform Engineering and product thinking. He has successfully led multiple enabling teams in initiatives such as architecture modernization and reliability engineering practices.

As a sociotechnical systems thinker, I work closely with CTOs, managers, architects, and software teams to revolutionise the way we design and develop software. The goal is to foster a collaborative software design approach and ensure that stakeholders and development teams co-create solutions that perfectly address both customer and business needs.

I have been leading and facilitating collaborative modelling sessions for over eight years. My journey began with Eventstorming, letting stakeholders participate to design software. As time has passed, the range of techniques in my repertoire has grown to encompass Example Mapping, Wardley Mapping, Business Model Canvas, Domain Storytelling, and the Team Topologies tools, among others.

A pivotal aspect of these sessions has always been the art of decision-making and inclusion. To enrich this process, I weave in my understanding of Deep Democracy with an anthropological lens, ensuring that the resulting decisions are sustainable, inclusive and reflect the collective wisdom, and are thoroughly supported by the group. I have distilled my experience into the book I co-authored, “Collaborative Software Design: How to Facilitate Domain Modelling Decisions,” which serves as a guide for those seeking to navigate the complexities of collaborative decision-making in software design.

João is an early adopter of Team Topologies in his consultancy practices. When the book was published, he integrated it into Domain-Driven Design training. His customers could use the concepts to discuss software and team boundaries and how those interact with each other. He wrote about his journey at ABN AMRO, where he was part of the DevOps transformation program. Team Topologies were applied to several departments during his time to visualise and discuss the upcoming change. He is an executive advisor, using the Team Topologies to explain why any evolutionary journey is non-linear; he profoundly believes in the old saying: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.". As such, he works as enabler within the organizations to create a sustainable cadence of change. The tiny line between change and chaos agent! :)

Eduardo has a long track record of leveraging and combining Team Topologies with many highly related ideas, such as improving organizations approach to sociotechnical systems evolution, architecture & leadership modernization, and developing Effective Enabling teams. He consults, writes, and speaks on “scaling sustainable fast flow of change” in software tech-enabled organizations. Eduardo brings a wide range of experience: from hands-on engineer and architect to first-hand experience scaling tech-enabled organizations and technical leadership.

Nick is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to his work exploring and linking Team Topologies and Domain-driven Design (DDD). Nick has devised and delivered the Domain-driven Design for Team Topologies (TT21) training, and linked DDD to TT in resources such as the Core Domain Charts.

Manuel is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to co-authoring the Team Topologies book and his work on applying Team Topologies to reliability, security, software architecture, and related areas, plus his work on expanding the use Team Topologies outside of IT.

Matthew is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to co-authoring the Team Topologies book and his work on applying Team Topologies to reliability, security, software architecture, and related areas, plus his work on expanding the use Team Topologies outside of IT.