Conference Program

iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering 2026

Eduardo da Silva

Independent Consultant on Modernization of Organizational Dynamics, Architecture and Leadership

Eduardo da Silva is an independent consultant specializing in modernizing organizational dynamics, architecture, and leadership. He is also a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP). His work focuses on helping tech-enabled organizations modernize their technical systems and teams to achieve a sustainable, fast flow of value & change. He takes a sociotechnical systems framing, considering org/people, technical, product (customer and environment), and business perspectives. He regularly speaks at events and writes about these topics at esilva.net

Since 2005, he has been an academic researcher, entrepreneur (founder of a startup), software engineer/architect, and consultant in multiple companies (from startups to scale-ups). From 2017 to 2022, he was a principal tech lead and sociotechnical architect for the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium (bol.com). He worked on various technical and organizational challenges to scale this product-led organization from 70 to 150+ teams.

Eduardo has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is originally from Portugal but now lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.