Arne Ansper is a consummate professional with extensive experience in software development. He has been designing and building security-critical distributed systems since 1995 and government information systems since 2001. Among other systems he designed the architecture of the Estonian governmental backbone X-Road. The founding principles were first described in his MSc thesis and later refined and implemented in X-Road, by far the most successful e-Government project in Estonia. In recent years he has been involved as security and system architecture expert in most of the development projects of Cybernetica.