Summary
Ivan Goor is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14+ years building and scaling development teams and products across regulated and fast-moving markets. As co-founder and long-time managing director of Ardanis (now Plain Concepts Europe), he blends agile delivery, evolutionary architecture and automation to help organisations design modular, maintainable systems and speed up time-to-value. He has risen from hands-on development roles to CEO, leading product-focused engineering teams and championing practices like BDD, pair programming and iterative delivery. Based in Dublin, Ivan is known for pragmatic, evolution-first architectures rather than grand upfront designs, and for turning process improvements into measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma in Computing, Advanced Diploma in Computing at Senior College Dun Laoghaire