Manuel Pais
Motivational Keynote Speaker, Team Topologies (book & Academy) Co-author, Fast Flow Thought Leader
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolManuel Pais is a motivational keynote speaker and co-author of the influential book Team Topologies, with 15+ years helping organisations make work more humane while accelerating software delivery through Fast Flow. He trains and advises executives and delivery teams worldwide on pragmatic team design, platform strategies and flow-first organisational assessments, blending academic rigor from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD practice. Manuel has led editorial efforts at InfoQ, co-curated widely cited team-topology patterns, and coached clients from startups to enterprises across finance, telco and manufacturing. Known for no-nonsense, evidence-driven interventions, he combines systems thinking, metrics for business decisions and tooling fluency to turn organisational structure into a competitive advantage. Based in Madrid with roots in Lisbon, he quietly bridges research, publishing and practitioner worlds to drive measurable change.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Masters in Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Universidade de CoimbraMasters in Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Masters in Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityComputer Engineer, Programming and Information Systems, Computer Engineer, Programming and Information Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SkeltonThatcher/devopstopologies
Feb 2016 - Sep 2019
Website for the DevOps Team Topologies at devopstopologies.com
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 31 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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TeamTopologies/Team-Topologies-Glossary-Translations
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Glossary from the Team Topologies book translated to different languages
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 months
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