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.
- UTCP vs MCP: what happens to agent auth without a server in the middle?
- PartitionKey and RowKey in Azure Table Storage explained
- ValidateAntiForgeryToken in ASP.NET Core: unit test for it
- Call for Papers meaning: what happens after you submit
- Run Azurite storage emulator in Docker with Rider
- Server-Timing Headers in ASP.NET Core: Backend Metrics in Browser DevTools
- Device Bound Session Credentials in ASP.NET Core
- System.Text.Json Polymorphic Deserialization
- Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
- Fix CS8618 Nullable Warnings in C# JSON Models
- Name: Maarten Balliauw (how to pronounce π)
- 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"
- Email: maarten@maartenballiauw.be
- Twitter: @maartenballiauw
- X: @maartenballiauw
- Bluesky: @maartenballiauw.be
- Mastodon: @maartenballiauw@mastodon.online
- GitHub: maartenba
- LinkedIn: public profile
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






