People at Conflux

Oana Leonte is Event Marketing Coordinator at Conflux, supporting marketing and business operations for all companies in the Conflux group. Oana brings with her a diverse skill set, with a background in event management, business administration, marketing coordination, data integration, project support, and pharmacy management.

Patrick is an engineer with 25 years’ experience across startups, global enterprises, and government. He’s an expert in systems architecture and organisational practices, with a knack for turning strategy into outcomes that matter.

Alongside Conflux, Patrick serves as a Fractional CTO at Sastaticket (travel/retail) and Oraan (fintech), guiding teams through modernisation and scale-up.

Will is a technology consultant dedicated to delivering better software more effectively.

He has three decades of experience across the software development lifecycle, most particularly in all aspects of moving code from SCM to production. His knowledge and skills have been honed in technical and managerial roles spanning industries including finance, government, media, transport, and technology.

Emily is a UK-based and internationally recognised independent organisational consultant, coach, trainer, and speaker. She focuses on creating environments where people thrive so that organisations can thrive; breaking down silos to improve flow and accelerate learning.

She helps organisations to create conditions that enable effective collaboration and iterative, user-focused delivery.

Nicola Boyle is a Delivery Management and Transformation Specialist with significant experience across Australia and China, and within globally distributed teams.

She utilizes lean and agile principles, and is known for setting up and scaling engineering teams, transforming governance, product and delivery structures, practices and processes in medium to large organisations, and managing large backlogs of work to bring new products and services to market.

Jack Ridge is a Delivery Management Consultant who specializes in supporting and facilitating teams to achieve fast flow and greater value.

His focus is enabling teams to move towards product-centric delivery, adopting socio-technical thinking by provoking thoughts to deliberately change their posture to best suit the strategic and technical environment using Team Topologies.

Cliff has made a career out of breaking down the obstacles that stand in the way of great work. He is often challenging the status quo in his quest to develop the right culture and systems for creation of excellent Companies and Products.

Tom is a product management consultant dedicated to enhancing consumer experience through insight and efficiency.

He began his career at a successful dot com startup, where he embraced small team dynamism and covered several roles. He subsequently carried this hyper-agile business experience (a rapid application development culture and relentless customer centricity) into more corporate settings.

Before joining Team Topologies and Conflux to lead the Go-to-Market as Head of Customer Success, Val Yonchev spent time at Red Hat and Digital.AI, where he led teams focused on helping organizations to become more successful with technology. In his work, Val is very much driven by his belief that organizations must continuously evolve to remain places where people can bring their full creativity and full self to work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tom is an independent consultant focussed on safety cultures and psychological safety as a mediator of organisational performance.. He is an Associate Principal at Conflux.

João Rosa is an independent consultant focused on supporting organizations in creating purposeful systems. As part of his consultancy practice, he helps organizations bridge their strategy to execution.

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.

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.

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.

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.