Willy started his IT career in the early 1980’s during his Electrical Engineering studies, focusing on the BTOS/CTOS operating systems until he moved over primarily to Microsoft technologies in the early 90’s. Since then his passion has been to investigate, research and evangelize technology, best practices and striving for simplicity and maintainability in software engineering. Apart from writing books such as ".NET Enterprise Solutions ... Best Practices” , “.NET Enterprise Solutions … Interoperability for the Connoisseur” and “Software Engineers on their way to Pluto”, his varied and extreme interests include scuba diving, cycling, science fiction, Star Wars, astronomy and most importantly his family.