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.
- System.Text.Json Polymorphic Deserialization
- Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
- Fix CS8618 Nullable Warnings in C# JSON Models
- What is IdentityServer and When Do You Need it?
- Run a .NET App as a Linux Service with systemd
- Rate limiting in ASP.NET Core: a practical guide (updated for .NET 10)
- Using ASP.NET Core Passkeys for Second Factor Authentication
- Device Bound Session Credentials in ASP.NET Core
- Building a Supply Chain Attack with .NET and NuGet
- Hosting the .NET Aspire Dashboard as a Standalone Container in Azure Web Apps
- 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






