Donald Belcham
Architect, Mentor, Coach, Team Leader, Senior Software Developer at igloocoder.com Consulting Ltd.
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolDonald Belcham is a seasoned .NET architect and team leader with over 20 years in software development and more than a decade of hands-on experience running his consulting practice from Nova Scotia. He combines deep, low-level knowledge of the .NET Framework with pragmatic OO design, TDD, and agile practices to deliver maintainable systems and coach high-performing teams. Donald has a strong track record mentoring developers, building teams from scratch, and speaking at user groups, code camps, and conferences worldwide. He is an active contributor to notable open-source .NET projects like NServiceBus and ParticularDocs, where he has improved test suites, fixed cross-platform .NET Core issues, and tuned performance for messaging samples. Beyond engineering, he brings a trainer’s mindset—translating complex technical concepts into teachable practices—and a practical business perspective shaped by long-term consulting and leadership roles.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
TCP, Computer Science, TCP, Computer Science at Capilano UniversityAgriculture Business Diploma, Finance, Agriculture Business Diploma, Finance at Olds College
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
nservicebus10
messaging10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
distributed-systems9
netcore9
documentation8
rabbitmq7
tlbimp6
signalr6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Particular/NServiceBus
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 112 PRs, 187 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Donald primarily contributed to improving the test suite of the NServiceBus framework, specifically focusing on Saga persistence and message handling. Their work involved fixing existing tests related to Saga persistence using InMemorySagaPersister and adjusting code to use the configured correlation property and update calls. The user also addressed concurrency issues, and renames testing helper classes. They also added logging for the PurgeOnStartup feature.
vertical-slice-architecturec-sharpservice-busdotnetcoretflint
Particular/docs.particular.net
Feb 2016 - Aug 2020
All content for ParticularDocs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 164 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Donald's primary focus was updating and refactoring documentation and code samples related to the NServiceBus framework. They addressed issues with .NET Core builds, connection string upgrades, and other configuration changes, ensuring the samples remained up-to-date. Furthermore, they updated various samples to address a .NET Core bug, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining code quality and compatibility. They also contributed to performance tuning within the ASB samples.
pythonnservicebus
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