Iconoclastic is what characterizes Iwan (pronounced as E1). Developing an ESB when nobody knew the acronym, explaining why ESB’s were not the solution once the acronym was on everybody’s lips. Defining Docker as an indicator for architecture debt and prophesizing that Project Management is a task of the past. As Arc-E-Tect he blogs (arc-e-tect.com) and tweets (@Arc_E_Tect) about how he experiences the world of and around IT, expressing his iconoclastic view on IT.

Iwan has worked and lived around the globe, from the US to Pakistan, Egypt to Denmark, Switzerland to Scotland and the Netherlands. In 1983 he was out of primary school, 33 years later, in 2016 he started part-time teaching science and technology at a primary school, teaching gifted children how to solve problems, apply engineering skills and think out of the box, heck, think without boxes.

Spending most of his professional time among IT architects, sometimes disguised as one, you can also find him on a regular basis in rooms coaching teams and management on how to think differently to become more effective. He's one of the people at Infor that defined in 2018 what an SRA is.