Ivo Balbaert is currently a lecturer in (Web) Programming and Databases at CVO Antwerpen (www.cvoantwerpen.be), a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant for several companies, and for 10 years as a project manager at the Antwerp University Hospital. In 2000, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerp).

Ivo also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails called Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, Van Duuren Media, 2009. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language called The Way To Go, iUniverse. Last year, in collaboration with Dzenan Ridzanovic, he also wrote Learning Dart, Packt Publishing.