About me

TL;DR

• Name: Maarten Balliauw
• 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

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• Email: [email protected]
• X: @maartenballiauw
• Bluesky: @maartenballiauw.be
• Mastodon: @[email protected]
• GitHub: maartenba
• LinkedIn: public profile

Bio

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.

• Blog: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be
• Previous talks and presentations: full list of talks

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