Bart De Smet

Current

• Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft Corporation

Past

• Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
• MVP Visual C# at Bart De Smet .NET
• Thesis Student at ICORDA

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Education

• Universiteit Gent
• Universiteit Gent
• Universiteit Gent

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Bart

Connections

195 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website
• MSDN Belux

Bart De Smet’s Summary

My major objectives are language-related innovation and core framework development activities.

Particularly interested in low-level stuff such as runtimes, virtual execution engines, type systems, compilers, core frameworks, database technologies, etc.

Favorite activities: foundational computer science theroeis, software architecture and design, development, technology evangelism.

Bart De Smet’s Specialties:

Expertise in .NET Framework Programming, CLR Internals, C#.
Active knowledge of Visual Basic, Java, F#, C++, C.
Notions of Perl, Haskell, Prolog, Ada, Lisp, ML, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Scala, SASL, Clu, Smalltalk.

Bart De Smet’s Experience

• Software Development Engineer 2

  Microsoft Corporation

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  I'm working on the Windows Presentation Foundation technology, part of .NET Framework 3.0 and higher, as a Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE 2).
  
  Currently working on the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, more specifically on WPF's Application Model feature area and related projects.

• Software Development Engineer

  Microsoft Corporation

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  October 2007 — August 2009 (1 year 11 months)

  I'm working on the Windows Presentation Foundation technology, part of .NET Framework 3.0 and higher, as a Software Development Engineer (SDE).
  
  Currently working on the .NET Framework 3.5 Client setup and deployment story.

• MVP Visual C#

  Bart De Smet .NET

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — September 2007 (4 years )

  Technology evangelist for Microsoft .NET technologies, including CLR, C#, Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server System. Awarded with the MVP title by Microsoft since October 2003.

• Thesis Student

  ICORDA

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Bart De Smet’s Education

• Universiteit Gent

  MSc , Civil Engineering - Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

  Graduated in June 2007 with a degree of magna cum laude; final year's dissertation on "Dynamic and generic workflows in .NET".

• Universiteit Gent

  Master , Informatics , 2003 — 2005

  Graduated in June 2005 with a degree of summa cum laude (with highest honor); final year's dissertation on "Enterprise application design in .NET".

• Universiteit Gent

  Bachelor , Informatics , 2001 — 2003

Additional Information

Bart De Smet’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website
• MSDN Belux

Bart De Smet’s Interests:

Technical presentations/evangelism/training/seminars/events, new technology, self-study of low-level technology aspects, mathematics and engineering disciplines, (watching) snooker

Bart De Smet’s Groups:

Benug, Belgian Microsoft VIP community, INETA

•    Functional Programming
•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    TechEd Speaker Idol participants

Bart De Smet’s Honors:

2003: MVP - Visual Developer - .NET
2004: MVP - Visual Developer - Visual C#
2005: MVP - Visual Developer - Visual C#
2006: MVP - Visual Developer - Visual C#
2006: Speaker Idol - TechEd Developers EMEA

Bart De Smet’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch