Originally from Belgium, Bart relocated to work at the Microsoft headquarters in 2007 after graduating from Ghent University while being a C# MVP.

After having worked on WPF and .NET for a few years, Bart focused on reactive programming for quite some time, helping to build Reactive Extensions (Rx) and large scale event processing systems powering various cloud services.

After a brief stint in AutoML focusing on Python performance tuning, Bart is now focusing on building next generation distributed systems in the office of the CTO.