Hi there 👋
My name is Maarten Balliauw.
Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software, creator of SpeakerTravel, and formerly founded MyGet. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten's blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.
📙 Recent blog posts
- Keyed Services (Named registrations) in .NET Service Provider
- So, I wrote a fiction book. Meet "The Side Project".
- TimeProvider and the End of Untestable DateTime.Now
- Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time)
- What is IdentityServer and When Do You Need it?
- Time for a change... Moving from JetBrains to Duende Software
- Talk - Bringing C# nullability into existing code
- Test-Driving Windows 11 Dev Drive for .NET
- Provide opt-in to experimental APIs using C#12 ExperimentalAttribute
- Discriminated Unions in C#
❓ Quick bits
- Name: Maarten Balliauw (how to pronounce 🔉)
- Age:
DateTime.UtcNow.Year - 1983 - Gender: male
- Occupation:
- Frequent speaker at various events worldwide
- Head of Customer Success at Duende Software
- Founder and owner of SpeakerTravel
- Former Head of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains
- Former founder and owner of MyGet
- Location: Antwerp, Belgium
- Favourite beer: Westmalle Tripel, Rochefort 10, La Chouffe (Achouffe)
- Quote: "A developer is a machine that converts coffee into code"
📨 Contact details
- Email: maarten@maartenballiauw.be
- Twitter: @maartenballiauw
- X: @maartenballiauw
- Bluesky: @maartenballiauw.be
- Mastodon: @maartenballiauw@mastodon.online
- GitHub: maartenba
- LinkedIn: public profile
💻 Open Source
I try to contribute to various open source projects, when time allows. Here are some examples:
Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter: @maartenballiauw