Ed Charbeneau
Principal Developer Advocate
Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolEd Charbeneau is a Principal Developer Advocate with 14 years of web development experience and a decade-plus of advocacy at Progress, where he promotes platform adoption and engages developer communities. A Microsoft MVP, international speaker, and published writer, he blends full-stack engineering (C#, ASP.NET/MVC, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) with practical experience in databases, ORM, testing, and even machine learning. He contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Telerik’s Blazor UI examples and extending GenFu’s test-data generators—demonstrating both UI polish and backend tooling sensibilities. Based in Shelbyville, Kentucky, he co-organizes the Louisville .NET Meetup and has a long history of community event leadership through Code PaLOUsa. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs hands-on coding with design, analytics, and developer relations to turn complex requirements into approachable, well-documented solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Electronics Engineering, AS, Electronics Engineering at ITT Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
ui-components10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
grids10
blazor10
asp-net10
grid10
dotnet-core10
zurb-foundation10
csharp10
blazor-server10
reflection9
strings9
razor9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/blazor-ui
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
A collection of examples related to Telerik UI for Blazor Components: https://www.telerik.com/blazor-ui
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on enhancing the UI and functionality of the Telerik Blazor UI examples. Their contributions included adding new examples for the Grid component, such as a Form Edit example, and refactoring existing Grid pages. They also incorporated dynamic navigation and replaced icons within the navigation menu. Additionally, the user made updates to improve the application by fixing an encoding error and refining the TabStrip component.
razorblazor-serverdatagridblazor-uiblazor-components
MisterJames/GenFu
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
GenFu is a library you can use to generate realistic test data. It is composed of several property fillers that can populate commonly named properties through reflection using an internal database of values or randomly created data. You can override any of the fillers, give GenFu hints on how to fill them.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the addition and improvement of test data generation capabilities within the GenFu library. Their work focused on extending string filler extensions to include lorem ipsum generation, adding methods to generate words, sentences, and paragraphs, and creating helper functions for wireframe generation. Furthermore, the user addressed variable name inconsistencies and added an image placeholder filler, enhancing the library's utility for test data generation.
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