People at Conflux
Experts who facilitate and catalyze change
People at Conflux
Leadership
Matthew Skelton is co-author of ‘Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow’ (IT Revolution Press, 2019), which has become the go-to reference for organizations worldwide seeking business agility and adaptability with software-enriched services.
Matthew is Founder and Principal at Conflux
Business Operations
Oana Leonte is Business Operation Support at Conflux, supporting business operations for all companies in the Conflux group. Oana brings with her a diverse skill set, with a background in business administration, event management, data integration, project support, and pharmacy management.
With her passion for continuous improvement and her commitment to delivering exceptional results, Oana plays an important role in driving the success of Conflux business operations.
Carolyn Berry is Business Operations Manager at Conflux, covering business operations for all companies in the Conflux group. Carolyn’s expertise in administration and knowledge of business operations helps Conflux to operate across more than 15 countries worldwide.
Consultants and Facilitators
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.
Duncan is an independent consultant with over 30 years experience in information technology; with a strong belief in the benefits of Lean and Agile practices in ensuring investments in technology are successful in meeting business needs. Most recently he has been consulting to enterprises large and small; advising on funding models; organisational design and ways of working, as well as anchoring large digital and core-banking transformations.
He brings experience in managing large agile global development teams; transforming IT development capability organisationally and is particularly adept at finding common language to explain the benefits of modern software development practices in business terms to bridge the gap between technology and non-technology executives; supporting the important change process and human side of successful technology transformations.
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.
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 is an independent consultant focused on supporting organizations in creating purposeful systems. He is an Associate Principal at Conflux.
Matthew Skelton is co-author of ‘Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow’ (IT Revolution Press, 2019), which has become the go-to reference for organizations worldwide seeking business agility and adaptability with software-enriched services.
Matthew is Founder and Principal at Conflux