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 went on to building next generation distributed systems in the office of the CTO, which have since become foundational pieces of the Azure Base Platform.