Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw is a software developer based in Antwerp who has been a founding board member of AZUG since June 2009. Since January 2025 he has been Head of Customer Success at Duende Software, Inc., and he founded SpeakerTravel in March 2019. His stated areas of expertise are .NET, .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core and Git.

He worked at JetBrains from October 2016 as a developer advocate, becoming developer advocate team lead in February 2020 and Head of Advocacy from July to December 2024. He had held an earlier developer advocate role at JetBrains between December 2012 and January 2015, and alongside his return to the company he ran Balliauw Consulting as a freelance consultant until February 2020. Between those two periods he was a software engineer, then senior software engineer, at Microsoft from January 2015 to October 2016. He founded MyGet in March 2011 and remained with it until August 2018.

Earlier, Balliauw was a software engineer and technical consultant at RealDolmen from September 2008 to December 2012, a software engineer at Dolmen Computer Applications from 2005 to 2008, and project manager and developer on the Codeplex PHPExcel project from 2007 to 2012. He founded Squirrel BVBA in March 2002 and led it until October 2004, and worked as a field system engineer at e-Demonstrations and as an animator in Kapellen. He studied applied informatics at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool, graduating in 2005.