People at Conflux

Matthew Skelton, CEO of Conflux and co-author of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019), has become the go-to reference for organizations worldwide seeking business agility and adaptability with software-enriched services.

Matthew is the CEO and Principal at Conflux

Noah Cantor is a Technology Leadership coach dedicated to empowering leaders to excel in themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Leveraging a blend of technical expertise, leadership proficiency, system understanding, and genuine empathy, Noah's approach is centered on unlocking individuals' inherent abilities while bridging any skill gaps they may encounter. He measures his success by the point at which his guidance is no longer required. His approach is to surface the innate capabilities of people, and help them fill in any missing gaps. He knows he has been successful when he is no longer necessary.

Simon Copsey is a consultant who helps senior leaders overcome complex challenges quickly, enabling happier staff to deliver better software sooner. With a background in the full software lifecycle, he uses the scientific method and modern management theory to find practical solutions. Additionally, Simon is a visiting lecturer in computer science and shares his insights through conferences, articles, and meetups.

Christopher Marsh is a socio-technical consultant who specializes in helping companies develop a culture of continuous improvement. His focus is empowering software engineering teams to produce customer value through the fast flow of software development, and during his own career as a software engineer he has been a longstanding advocate and practitioner of continuous delivery.

Daniel Walters is a full-time dad and part-time CTO coach, fractional CTO, and technology strategy consultant based in Auckland, New Zealand. With extensive experience in senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), Daniel has guided organizations from startups to enterprises. Notable achievements include his pivotal role in the fast growth and sale of Hitwise (USD 240m) and establishing a development center in Malaysia for Experian's Consumer Insights division, where he led a team of 70. His formative experience as CTO and CIO for Seek Asia involved navigating challenges in a newly formed subsidiary resulting from the merger of two major competitors in Southeast Asia. Daniel's journey emphasizes cultivating a resilient, adaptive culture in a rapidly changing environment. He shares insights from his experiences in his publication, "Great CTOs Focus on Outcomes."

Sorrel is a learning specialist with 15+ years experience supporting learning across the education and technology sectors. She currently operates as a solo consultant, offering ‘Learning as a Service’ - a range of services aimed at enabling the continuous, systemic learning of individuals, teams and whole organisations.

At Conflux she helps to shape and enrich the learning experiences of our clients, advising on all aspects of learning design, from content creation to the way learning is delivered within our engagements. Sorrel is a firm believer that successful transformation hinges on a culture of continuous learning characterised by effective learning behaviours, including reflective practice, collaboration, experimentation and feedback.

Jonathan Strommen is a product and organizational consultant specialized in highly-regulated industries across both US and international markets. With extensive experience in leadership roles spanning product management, development, and post-production customer support, Jonathan adopts a holistic approach to aligning value streams and optimizing focus for strategic outcomes. Drawing on his customer-centric perspective and consulting expertise, he guides organizations in challenging conventional assumptions to unlock innovative solutions that responsibly accelerate feedback loops and time to market.

Victoria is an independent consultant with nearly 30 years' experience in the technology industry, 15 of which have been spent operating within organisational leadership. There, she has coached teams and senior leaders to effectively deliver outcomes within a culture of inclusion, collaboration, curiosity and generosity.

Clem is an independent coach and consultant focused on helping tech leaders have effective conversations and foster people-first culture. He combines a background in technology and consultancy with his ICF-accredited coaching practice to help organisations create the conditions for better communication, high-performing teams and inclusive, engaging company Culture.

Himanshu Swaroop is a transformation practitioner. He has more than 15 years of experience leading transformation within enterprise businesses. The impact of his work is based on behaviour and systems change across teams. For example platform teams visualising their work to continuously improve flow of work. Another example is product managers using customer usage data to make product decisions. Another example is product teams aligned on a common product strategy to help customer claims simpler. Other experiments he has used include improvements in team psychological safety; improvements in continuous discovery and continuous delivery.

His transformation outcomes have focussed on customer and employee journeys. These transformation efforts are dependent on the business context at these enterprises. The context is driven by - industry (e.g, pharmaceutical, financial services and telecommunications), size of business (e.g., revenue ranging from $400 million to $50 billion), system and team complexity (e.g, legacy systems, high acquisition activity, high degree of regulation and functional silos).

He is driven by 6 key values of continuous learning, integrity, impact, respect for individuals, bias for action and pride in work.

Thiago is an independent consultant renowned for his data and AI/ML expertise. His empathetic, equitable approach is a hallmark of his leadership, having guided AWS teams and collaborated with startups and prominent names like ASML, KLM, and Nike. Thiago is at the vanguard of integrating fast flow and Team Topologies into data and AI/ML initiatives, emphasizing kindness and empathy in tech management.

His consultancy style blends wit, empathy, and a fair-minded approach, valuing each team's unique context and capabilities. Thiago's recent venture, the Lovelace Series, spotlights the challenges and triumphs of women in tech, addressing critical issues such as micro-aggressions and retention. A regular speaker at European conferences, he shares insights on the confluence of Data Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, DevOps, and Fast Flow, contributing to a more inclusive and forward-thinking tech landscape.

Nick Tune is the author of Architecture Modernization (Manning) and co-author of Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wiley).

He has held hands-on software development, architecture, and leadership roles during the past 15 years, most recently working as a consultant specializing in Domain-Driven Design, architecture and operating model modernization, and continuous delivery.

Elizabeth Ayer is a product and organisational consultant who promotes a virtuous cycle of empowered teams, fast flow, and business agility. With her background in product and portfolio management, she takes a value-oriented, collaborative approach to designing more humane structures for teams to thrive.

Sarah Wells is an experienced technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement and technology strategy. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.

Becky Thorn Sietsma is an experienced consultant helping teams to align and evolve their organizations so together they can create impact at scale in an ever changing world.

Her consulting focus is business-tech alignment, and she champions the important three-way collaboration between: strategy - team design - tech architecture.