FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect 2025

Jul 27, 2025  •  2   • 372 

A very special blog to me personal this time!

Something pretty cool: I became a FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect (FTRSA) for Power Apps accepted by Microsoft. 🎉 It’s one of those titles that sounds great on LinkedIn, but behind it is actually a lot of work, learning, and collaboration. In this blog, I’ll explain what the program is about, how I got there.

What is the FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect program?

Let’s start with the basics. The FTRSA program is Microsoft’s way of recognizing solution architects who work with the Power Platform. It’s not something you apply for like a regular certification, nomination is based on real-world work: large, complex implementations, adherence to best practices, and technical and functional knowledge.

The process includes a formal review by Microsoft’s engineering team, submission of architecture artifacts, and even an interview. It’s thorough — and that’s what makes the recognition feel real.

My journey to becoming an FTRSA

This wasn’t something I set out to do from day one. It started with simply loving what I do — working with customers, solving real business problems, and pushing Power Platform to its full potential.

Over the past few years, I’ve led some pretty intense implementations. I learned a lot (and made some mistakes along the way as well), but I always aimed to keep learning, stay close to the tech, and build solutions that actually work for the people using them.

Thanks to my colleague Albert-Jan Schot who encouraged me to set this as a goal. Earlier this year I received the endorsement from customers for whom I worked for. That kicked off a detailed review process: meeting the prerequisites, gathering architecture docs and customer use cases and more. A couple of months ago I had my interview in which I got questions regarding to complexity of the projects and evaluation of the architecture, adherence of best practices and technical expertise.

Eventually, I got the mail: I had been recognized as one of the FTRSA for Power Apps for 2025. 🎉

Getting recognized was a proud moment. I’m still learning (every day), and I’m still as excited as ever about building great things with the Microsoft stack and improving business processes for different kind of organizations.