Welcome to the Duende Software Developer Community!

[maartenba]

👋 Hey there! Welcome to the Duende Software Developer Community!

We are using discussions as a place to connect with other members of our developer community:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Show and tell. What interesting projects did you build using IdentityServer, BFF, ...? Did you write a blog post showcasing how to use our software? Please share!
• Engage with other community members.

This is a community we build together, and we're looking forward to your contributions 💪.

To get started, comment below with an introduction of yourself and tell us about what you do with this community.

[maartenba]

I'm Maarten, in the Customer Success team at Duende. I've spent many years as a consultant working on all kinds of web applications, often with IdentityServer as a foundational component. Public speaker at many conferences, conference organizer, and blogger at company blogs and https://blog.maartenballiauw.be (please guilt me into reviving my personal blog).

Built MyGet.org a long time ago if you're familiar with that one still, spent close to 12 years at JetBrains to work on building community around ReSharper and Rider, and now here at Duende to help make this a vibrant community, share experience, and learn.

[RolandGuijt]

I'm Roland, part of the Customer Success team at Duende.
In my freelance career I've done many .NET projects at customers and lately most of them are security related. I'm a Pluralsight author since 2013 and I have authored more than 35 courses mainly about ASP.NET, React and authentication and authorization.

I had the privilege to be a speaker at many conferences around the world and I'm a crew member of the popular conference in The Netherlands and Belgium: Techorama.
For my community efforts I was awarded the MVP status by Microsoft 10 times.

Looking forward to be part of this new community where I'll be sharing my knowledge while at the same time learning as much as possible.

[damianh]

Hi I'm Damian, leading the Product and Technology team here at Duende. I've been involved in some way with the Identity Server journey from it's early days and implemented plenty of times at various projects. Over my career I've worked in a variety of industries from pure software product, to enterprise, to start-ups and everything in between. Mostly in .NET, I've also ran and contributed to a various popular (and not-so-popular) OSS projects over the years. Let's just say I've been around the block a bit ;)

Delighted to be full time focused on Duende and am looking forward to expanding our offerings, continuing to keep up to date with the evolving specifications and standards spaces, whilst helping developers build secure, reliable and compliant identity solutions.

[AndersAbel]

Hi, I'm Anders working for the Customer Success team at Duende.

I've been doing authentication solutions for 25 years and my first encounter with IdentityServer was in 2014 when IdentityServer3 was new. At the time, I had just released the open source Saml2 library which is now known as Sustainsys.Saml2. It turned out that IdentityServer and Sustainsys.Saml2 worked really well together with my Saml2 library bridging the gap to legacy upstream providers that only supported Saml2.

Now, a decade later, I'm working with Duende supporting customers implementing IdentityServer. I also provide training at select conferences and still maintain/develop the Sustainsys.Saml2 library.

[wcabus]

Hello there! I'm Wesley, working in the Customer Success team at Duende. I've spent most of my career working as a consultant on a variety of applications (desktop, embedded, mobile and web). Over the years, I have been focusing more on the security area of software development, which allowed me to be involved in a custom implementation of IdentityServer at a previous assignment and closely working together with pentest teams to harden a variety of web applications.

Based in Belgium, where I help organizing local meetup events for Visug. I'm also blogging from time to time at https://wesleycabus.be and you can find me speaking at conferences as well.

At Duende, you'll find me here, answering questions and assisting you all with Duende-related questions!