Ivo Balbaert is currently a lecturer of (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 at several companies, and for 10 years as a project manager at the Antwerp University Hospital. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen).
In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way To Go, IUniverse. In 2013, in collaboration with Dzenan Ridzanovic, he wrote Learning Dart and Dart Cookbook, followed by Getting Started with Julia Programming Language and Rust Essentials, all published by Packt.