Marc Duiker

@marcduiker
Dev 🥑 who ❤ Serverless, DevCommunity & Creative Coding
The Netherlands
he/him

Creative Technologist

Developer Relations

Content Creator

Speaker

Technical Writer

Open Source

Creative Coding

Serverless

Software Engineering

YouTuber

Pixel Art

2D Game Artist

Side Hustle

Contributor

Open Source Maintainer

Backend Developer

Game Developer

Meetup Host

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Beta Tester

Community Builder

Polyworker

Club Founder

GitHub

Developer Advocate

Digital Creative

Generative Art & Design

LEGO Enthusiast

I ♥ Serverless, DevCommunity & Creative Coding

Let me know if you want to collaborate on anything related to the developer community/serverless/event-driven architecture.

I'd love to help out with:

Creating fun & educational technical content.
Making pixel art.
Co-hosting conferences/podcasts.
Public speaking.

You can support my work via ko-fi.com/marcduiker or github.com/sponsors/marcduiker.

I'm open to

speaking at events,

open source contributions,

speaking on podcasts,

live streaming,

content creation,

and partnering on side projects.

Contact Me

Resume

Jul 2019 - Present

Co organizer, ServerlessDays Amsterdam

Jan 2023 - Present

Sr Developer Advocate, Diagrid

Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

Sr Developer Advocate, Ably

Apr 2017 - Oct 2021

Lead Azure Consultant, Xpirit

Portfolio

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MC-ed at Virtual Azure Community Day (NL)

Wrote a blog post what I have done at Ably for the last year

Spoke at CloudBrew (BE)

Spoke at NDC Oslo

Open Source

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Be ready for failure on stage: introducing the Speaker Buddy System

Created two versions of a collaborative pixelart drawing app, one based on Azure Web PubSub, the other based on Ably. GitHub: https://github.com/ably-labs/collaborative-pixel-drawing Live app: http...

Started a new open source project to manage Ably apps from VSCode.

Created Agile Flush, an online collaboration tool for planning poker.

Presentations

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Spoke at ServerlessDays NYC about Persistence in Serverless Applications. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0YTtgn5KKo Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/marcduiker/persistence-in-serverless...

Live streamed a session for CodeMentor: How to start building serverless applications on Azure.

Gave a presentation for Microsoft Reactor Toronto titled: Help! I've created a serverless monolith.

Gave my talk "How to prevent building a serverless monolith" at #TheDevShow meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBrWFbdy6Y

Azure Functions University

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Added a series of small blog posts to dev.to to highlight all the Azure Functions University lessons on YouTube and GitHub.

Live streamed an Azure Functions university lesson about calling 3rd party REST APIs in .NET6 Function Apps. The content of this lesson was contributed by Maxime Labelle.

Live streamed an Azure Functions University lesson about deploying .NET 6 Functions Apps to Azure.

Live streamed the Blob lesson (Typescript) for Azure Functions University with Christian Lechner.

Pixelart

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Created a pixelart animation of the Ably DevRel team <3. See the animated version on Twitter.

Created designs for stickers & Tshirts for ohmyposh.dev (commissioned by Jan de Dobbeleer).

Created some playful pixelart for Ably.

Created a space themed pixelart background for BitProject to be used for their livestreams & presentations.