Maarten Balliauw
Head Of Customer Success at Duende Software, Inc.
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaarten Balliauw is a seasoned software leader with 15+ years building web and cloud applications, currently heading Customer Success at Duende Software after leading Developer Advocacy at JetBrains. He combines deep hands-on expertise in .NET, C#, ASP.NET, and Azure with a strong track record in performance tuning, CI/CD and package ecosystems (notably NuGet and MyGet). As a founder (SpeakerTravel, MyGet) and long-time open-source contributor, he has improved tooling and libraries used across the .NET and PHP communities, from NuGet clients to ReSharper/Rider samples and PHPExcel. A frequent international speaker and organizer of Belgium’s CloudBrew, he blends developer empathy with product-focused advocacy to help teams find the “path to success.” Off-stage he brews his own beer, a small but telling sign of his tinkering, experimentation and attention to craft.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
ASO Modern languages - Maths, ASO Modern languages - Maths at Sint-Lambertusinstituut EkerenBachelor Applied Informatics, Bachelor Applied Informatics at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolTSO Informatics, TSO Informatics at JOMA Merksem
English, Dutch, French, German
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Github Skills (68)
nuget10
apim10
package-management10
xaml10
testing10
ruby10
asp-net10
automation10
excel10
web-development10
javascript10
charts10
dotnet10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Dec 2011 - May 2017
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:494 commits, 167 PRs, 549 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily worked on back-end code modifications related to the NuGet Gallery, introducing features and fixing bugs. Their work includes exposing the `IsPrerelease` property in the V2 feed, updating user agent recognition for different NuGet clients, and fixing issues related to search functionality. They also made changes to enhance database performance and add functionality to enable better data visibility on the site.
dotnetreportingnuget-gallerypowerscsharp
JetBrains/resharper-rider-samples
Dec 2017 - May 2021
Simple interactive exercises to help learn ReSharper and Rider
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 28 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily contributed to the "resharper-rider-samples" repository by updating and modifying existing code samples to improve and add new functionality. Their contributions included updating bootstrap files for a specific MVC application, debugging third-party code and fixing typos. The user also implemented features and added code specific to Rider IDE tools and updated NuGet packages.
dotnetresharpercsharpinteractive-exercisesrider
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