Bart J.F. De Smet is a software development engineer on Microsoft's Cloud Programmability Team, an avid blogger, and a popular speaker at various international conferences. In his current role, he's actively involved in the design and implementation of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) and on an extended "LINQ to Anything" mission. You can read about Bart's technical adventures on his blog at http://blogs.bartdesmet.net/bart.
His main interests include programming languages, virtual machines and runtimes, functional programming, and all sorts of theoretical foundations. In his spare time, Bart likes to go out for a hike in the wonderful nature around Seattle, read technical books, and catch up on his game of snooker.
Before joining the company in October 2007, Bart was active in the .NET community as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for C#, while completing his Bachelor of Informatics, Master of Informatics, and Master of Computer Science Engineering studies at Ghent University, Belgium.