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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andy Spamer is an agile coach, delivery lead, and scrum master with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and technology delivery. He is passionate about helping organisations adopt agile methods and practices that optimise team interactions for fast flow and value delivery.

He is the founder of Agile Dimensions, a consultancy that has worked with global clients in the mining, oil & gas, finance, and government sectors. Andy is also a member of the Twenty2 Collective, a network of independent agile professionals.

Chris is a senior consultant for TeamForm which specialises in enabling large complex organisations to visualise their cross-functional teams (including Team Topology team types and interaction modes). Chris has almost 20 years working in technology with a focus on financial services. He's worked in 4 continents and is planning his move back to Australia after many years living abroad. 

Piotr Kacała is a Chief Technology Product Officer and Board Member with 20 years of commercial experience in building product teams and products that are loved by people worldwide. Previously, he was a senior technology and product leader in companies like Displate, CD Projekt, and GOG.com.

Piotr helps people and companies build modern product organizations and transform them into a product operating model using the strategic pyramid, continuous discovery, continuous delivery, and, yes, Team Topologies. 

Paula Kennedy is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntasso, the makers of Kratix: an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. With over 20 years of experience in tech working for VMware, Pivotal, CloudCredo and more, Paula is part of the organising committee for DevOpsDays London, Kubernetes Community Days UK, FastFlowConf, and the London Platform User Group.

Paula is an Ambassador for Open UK, a Team Topologies Advocate and a regular speaker at several conferences and meetups. In her spare time, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.