Xavier Decoster

Xavier Decoster (°1984) was born in West-Flanders, Belgium, where he grew up and dreamed about becoming a pilot. At the age of 20, after two years in the Belgian Air Force, he had to change career because of an injury. Because of his strong interest in science, mathematics and electronics, he studied ICT at the Technical University of West-Flanders, where he graduated with high honors. In 2007, his internship project to remotely manage home domotics using a smartphone was nominated with an Innovation Award.

Xavier worked as a software engineer and technical consultant on a variety of web projects, mainly using Microsoft technologies (incl. Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure).

He wrote the book "Pro NuGet" together with Maarten Balliauw, aiming to help out all .NET developers dealing with dependency hell situations. Maarten and Xavier are early adopters of NuGet and created their own NuGet-as-a-Service solution, MyGet.org, and share their experiences and guidance in this first NuGet book.

He enjoys learning and knowledge sharing as an ALM Consultant, as an author, on his blog (http://www.xavierdecoster.com) and on Twitter (@xavierdecoster). In 2013 he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Visual Studio ALM.

He know works as a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft on the NuGet.org and VS Marketplace team.