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Marcelo Ancelmo

Marcelo Ancelmo

Lifelong learner. Tech Leader, Speaker, Trainer. Troubleshooter and Troublemaker - Head of Solution Architecture @ KPMG Switzerland

Zürich, Switzerland

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Marcelo S. Ancelmo has 23 years (and counting) of IT experience and has done a bit (or would it be a byte) of everything. A good old-fashioned troublemaker, he started his professional career as a Java programmer, fell in love with architecture (a passion he still pursues today), dove into middleware (with no regrets), built high-performing teams, and explored infrastructure and operations. Deeply engaged in the tech community, Marcelo joins Meetups wherever he goes, teaming up with JUGs, helping organize events when time allows, and contributing to working groups and committees. Along the way, he’s delivered consulting, training, mentorship, and conference talks.

Today, he's Head of Solution Architecture at KPMG Switzerland, helping the company drive its digital transformation toward sustainable business agility, fueled by Architecture and DevOps, learning everything possible and enjoying the bumps along the ride.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Software Architecture
  • cloud
  • Cloud Native
  • DevOps
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • java
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise Blockchain
  • blockchain
  • Solution Architecture
  • Solutions Architecture
  • Architecture
  • agile
  • Lean
  • Jakarta EE
  • AI & ML Solutions
  • Big Data
  • Java & JVM
  • Java
  • Java EE
  • Enterprise Java / Jakarta EE
  • Cloud
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Methodologies
  • Architectures
  • Event-Driven Architectures
  • Modular Monolith Architectures
  • Microservices Architectures
  • DevSecOps
  • Software Development
  • DevOpsCulture
  • DevOps Transformation
  • Continuous compliance (DevSecOps perspective)
  • DevSecOps and GitOps in practice
  • DevOps Agile Methodology & Culture
  • Product Development
  • Leadership development
  • Agile software development
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Azure DevOps
  • messaging
  • Message Queues
  • Message-Driven Architecture
  • Message-Oriented Architecture
  • Event Driven Architecture
  • Event Streaming
  • service mesh
  • Service Bus
  • Enterprise Java
  • Enterprise Services Bus
  • Application Security
  • Application Architecture

Matching Product Management, Engineering Management and Solution Architecture with Team Topologies

The alignment between product management, engineering management, and solution architecture is critical for the success of any organization. However, achieving this alignment can be challenging, especially when teams are structured in traditional silos, lack clear communication channels and are not product oriented.

In this talk, we show how introducing Team Topologies can be utilized to bridge the gap between product management, engineering management, and solution architecture, offering a structured approach to organizing teams and interactions within an organization, fostering collaboration, innovation, and agility.

We will demonstrate how to structure product management, engineering management, and solution architecture roles, and provide practical strategies for implementing and adapting Team Topologies within the organization and product teams.

The presentation will also explore some common pitfalls and challenges to watch out for, along with strategies for overcoming them, driving innovation, improving productivity and deliver value to customers.

Cultivating a Learning Culture: Unlocking the Power of Continuous Development

This presentation aims to explore the significance of creating a learning culture and provide practical insights into how organizations can nurture a mindset of continuous development and continuous improvement.

Implementing Team Topologies

Team Topologies provides a powerful framework for shaping and optimizing team structures and interactions, enhancing your organizational agility and driving meaningful change within your teams. However, implementing Team Topologies can be challenging without the proper knowledge and guidance. In today's ever-evolving organizational landscape, it is crucial to adopt effective strategies that enable teams to thrive and deliver value consistently.

This presentation explores our experience with Team Topologies, providing valuable insights and practical tips to successfully apply Team Topologies and harness it's benefits. We will present how we structured the teams in order to enable close collaboration, make communication flow and driving change.

By attending this presentation, participants will gain the knowledge and confidence to successfully apply Team Topologies and unlock the full potential of their teams. They will be equipped with practical tips and tricks, along with a tutorial on how to successfully apply the Inverse Conway Maneuver, our lessons learned from implementing it, and which benefits we got.

Dare to Do - Multi-disciplinary Digital Ecosystem and DevOps at KPMG Switzerland

In this presentation, we take the audience on our Journey to bootstrap KPMG Switzerland's digital technology ecosystem to achieve our ambition of sustainable business agility.

We start by looking at how KPMG Switzerland IT landscape looked like when we started our journey (IT as back office support), presenting the challenges we had to overcome and sharing our lessons learned. We present, how we changed our identity and regained trust from our business colleagues. We also talk about what we had to change in order to grow, the techniques that worked for us, the ones we had to adapt or abandon (For now), and what we are going to experiment next. finally, we share some of our key takeaways for audience to reflect on.

We close the presentation by providing a glimpse of what's in our horizon for the future, and how we plan to evolve and grow our model.

DevOpsDays Zurich 2025 Sessionize Event

March 2025 Winterthur, Switzerland

DevOps Enterprise Summit LAS VEGAS 2023 Sessionize Event

October 2023 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

DevOps Enterprise Summit Amsterdam 2023 Sessionize Event

May 2023 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marcelo Ancelmo

Lifelong learner. Tech Leader, Speaker, Trainer. Troubleshooter and Troublemaker - Head of Solution Architecture @ KPMG Switzerland

Zürich, Switzerland

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