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Hi there 👋 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…
Hi there 👋
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.
📙 Recent blog posts
<!--START_SECTION:feed-->- [Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time)](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-06-16-discriminated-unions-in-csharp-for-real-this-time/)
- [What is IdentityServer and When Do You Need it?](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-06-11-what-is-identityserver-and-when-do-you-need-it/)
- [Time for a change... Moving from JetBrains to Duende Software](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2024-11-21-time-for-change-jetbrains-duende-software/)
- [Talk - Bringing C# nullability into existing code](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/talks/2024-01-21-bringing-csharp-nullability-into-existing-code/)
- [Test-Driving Windows 11 Dev Drive for .NET](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2023-11-22-test-driving-windows-11-dev-drive-for-dotnet/)
- [Provide opt-in to experimental APIs using C#12 ExperimentalAttribute](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2023-11-08-opt-in-to-experimental-apis-using-csharp-12-experimentalattribute/)
- [Discriminated Unions in C#](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2023-09-18-discriminated-unions-in-csharp/)
- [Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C#](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2023-06-15-running-large-language-models-locally-your-own-chatgpt-like-ai-in-csharp/)
- [Getting rid of warnings with nullable reference types and JSON object models in C#](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2023-01-12-getting-rid-of-warnings-with-nullable-reference-types-and-json-object-models-in-csharp/)
- [Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server](https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2022-11-05-mastodon-own-domain-without-hosting-server/)
❓ Quick bits
- Name: Maarten Balliauw (how to pronounce 🔉)
- Age:
DateTime.UtcNow.Year - 1983 - Gender: male
- Occupation:
- Location: Antwerp, Belgium
- Favourite beer: Westmalle Tripel, Rochefort 10, La Chouffe (Achouffe)
- Quote: "A developer is a machine that converts coffee into code"
📨 Contact details
- Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
- Twitter: @maartenballiauw
- X: @maartenballiauw
- Bluesky: @maartenballiauw.be
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
- GitHub: maartenba
- LinkedIn: public profile
💻 Open Source
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-
GoogleAnalyticsTracker ★ PINNED ▣
GoogleAnalyticsTracker - A C# library for tracking Google Analytics
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CamoDotNet ★ PINNED
CamoDotNet is all about making insecure assets look secure. This is an SSL image proxy to prevent mixed content warnings on secure pages.
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MvcSiteMapProvider ★ PINNED
An ASP.NET MVC SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework.
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maartenba.github.io ★ PINNED
Maarten Balliauw {blog}
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rider-content ★ PINNED
A curated list of content around JetBrains Rider
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grocerylistapi
Demo Grocery List API
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memory-demos
Demos used in various .NET memory management demos on my blog
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WindowsAzure.Acs.Oauth2 ▣
Oauth2 delegation through Windows Azure Access Control Service for ASP.NET Web API
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DotNetWatch ▣
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phpunit-runner-teamcity ▣
PHPUnit runner for TeamCity
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.NET CLI tool to initialize NuGet metadata in a .csproj file
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SignalR.Node ▣
No description.
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BrewBuddy ▣
Sample code for my talk "Brewing Beer with Windows Azure" - http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/aspConf/aspConf/Brewing-Beer-with-Windows-Azure
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teamcity-cloud-azure ▣
Microsoft Azure cloud plugin for TeamCity
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ChannelsExample
Example used in blog post about System.Threading.Channels
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TwilioTestingMinimalAPI
Source code for Twilio blog article about testing ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
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docker-youtrack ▣
This repository contains a Docker image of JetBrains YouTrack
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rider-plugin-globaljson ▣
Rider plugin that allows setting the .NET Core SDK version for a solution
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ChocolateyPackages ▣
Packages I maintain on Chocolatey.org
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NuGetTypeSearch
Demo code for NuGetTypeSearch
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DotNetContrib.Net.Http.Hsts ▣
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) support for System.Net.HttpClient, enforcing HTTPS when required by the remote host or preload list.
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BookSomeSpace
BookSomeSpace helps you schedule meetings. It eliminates back and forth emails - people can book straight into your calendar!
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CustomBindingExample
Custom binding example
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OpenProvider.Api
A .NET library to access OpenProvider API's.
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AirportDetails
Demo app for EF features in Rider and ReSharper
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rider-plugin-reversepackagesearch ▣
Rider example front-end plugin. Perform a reverse NuGet package search via packagesearch.azurewebsites.net.
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multifile ⑂ ▣
jQuery Multiple File Selection Plugin
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DotNetContrib.AspNetCore.Initialization ▣
Add initialization tasks and an optional splash screen to ASP.NET Core web applications.
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BenchmarkWithIndex
Can we optimize https://twitter.com/buhakmeh/status/1291029712458911752 ?
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twelve-days-of-htmx-mas ⑂
12 Days (demos) using Htmx with ASP.NET Core
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duffel-api-dotnet ⑂
DotNet client library for the Duffel API
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godot-drag-drop-quiz ⑂
No description.
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rider-plugin-xdt ▣
Rider plugin that allows running configuration transformations (XDT)
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orchard-authentication-federated ▣
Federated authentication for Orchard. This module enables SAML 2.0 authentication in Orchard, for example Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service.
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phpmef ▣
PHPMEF - PHP Managed Extensibility Framework
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kotlin-curious-csharp ▣
Demos for conference talk Kotlin for the Curious C# developer
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XamlStyler.dotUltimate ▣
XAML Styler for Rider (and ReSharper)
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intellij-ngrok
Bringing ngrok tunnels to the IntelliJ ecosystem
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maartenba
It's... me!
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AcmeCorp-IdentityPlayground
IdentityServer playground. Provided AS-IS.
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dotfiles
Maarten Balliauw's dotfiles
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weave-agent-fleet ⑂
No description.
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eShop ⑂
A reference .NET application implementing an eCommerce site
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starlight-convert ▣
No description.
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myget-documentation ▣
MyGet Documentation on GitBook
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2025 ⑂
ConFoo 2025
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GraphQLCountries
Demo app for blog post "Building a GraphQL Client in .NET with JetBrains Rider and StrawberryShake"
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ApplicationInsightsRiderPlugin ⑂
Rider plugin to see, instantly, in a nice way Application Insights logs.
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TowerDefense
TowerDefense game demo with Unity 3D engine
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FluentEmail ⑂
All in one email sender for .NET. Supports popular senders (SendGrid, MailGun, etc) and Razor templates.
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resharper-rider-playground ⑂
No description.
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rider-pugin-credentialprovider-sample ▣
Example Credential Provider for Rider
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rider-plugin-svcutil ▣
Rider plugin that allows generating Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service clients by invoking svcutil.exe.
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dotpeek-plugindevelopment-nuget ▣
NuGet package for dotPeek plugin development
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HelloWorld ▣
HelloWorld
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ReSharperEssentials ▣
Demo project for JetBrains ReSharper Essentials videos
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