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👋 Hey, I'm Khalid

.NET engineer, developer advocate & content creator. My name is Khalid Abuhakmeh, and this is my slice of the internet. I'm an experienced software developer with over a decade focusing on Microsoft .NET technologies — primarily ASP.NET and the web. Currently, I work as a Senior Customer Success Engineer at Duende Software, helping teams succeed with Duende IdentityServer.

Before Duende, I spent several years as a developer advocate at JetBrains, championing .NET tooling and writing about the ecosystem. Through all of it, the common thread is that I've kept coding.

17.4M+ NuGet downloads
350+ articles
10+ yrs building on .NET
Jr → Dir every dev title held

💼 Experience

Senior Customer Success Engineer — Duende Software

Helps engineering teams get the most out of Duende IdentityServer and its ecosystem.
Works hands-on with customers, from getting started to production troubleshooting.
Turns what customers run into into docs, samples, and guidance that help the wider community.

.NET Developer Advocate — JetBrains

Advocated for .NET tooling, especially JetBrains Rider, to a global developer audience.
Wrote technical content, demos, and tutorials covering ASP.NET Core, Blazor, EF Core, and cross-platform .NET.
Gathered community feedback and brought it back to product teams.

Junior Developer → Director of Software Development

Moved up through every software title: individual contributor, senior engineer, team lead, director.
Built and shipped production web systems on ASP.NET and the Microsoft stack.
Led teams, set technical direction, and balanced delivery against long-term code health.

🛠️ Core Skills

.NET / C#
ASP.NET Core
HTMX
Duende IdentityServer
Razor & Minimal APIs
Blazor
EF Core
.NET Aspire
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect
F#
JetBrains Rider

📦 Open Source

I maintain several NuGet packages with over 17.4 million combined downloads. Some highlights:

ConsoleTables — 11.8M downloads — print objects as tables in console apps
Htmx + Htmx.TagHelpers — 1.47M combined downloads — HTMX helpers for ASP.NET Core
Codez — random code generation library

I've also contributed logos to OSS projects like Marten, DDay.iCal, and Buildalyzer.

👶 The Origin Story

I started programming in middle school with Pascal — an imperative procedural language that my teacher informed us was "very dead" at the end of the semester. High school brought Basic, college brought C++ and my first video game, and then Visual C# and a Microsoft Access database application (groundbreaking stuff for early .NET). You might say that .NET and I have been together from the start.

I graduated from Millersville University with degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy, then went on to hold every software developer title from Junior Developer to Director of Software Development.

💻 Hardware

I run a MacBook Pro with an Apple M4 Pro chip (14-core CPU, 20-core GPU) and 24 GB of unified memory. All of my .NET development is cross-platform using JetBrains Rider. It's pretty incredible. 😁

👩‍❤️‍👨 Personal Life

I'm a naturalized citizen of the United States, initially born in Kuwait. After living through the first Gulf War, my family and I immigrated to settle in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

I have a lovely wife, Nicole, and our two dogs: Samson (an English Bulldog/Cane Corso mix) and Guinness (a black and tan rescue). We love traveling and have been to almost every continent — hoping to hit them all someday.

🙏 Let's Connect

The best place to find me is on Mastodon or GitHub. I'm always happy to chat about .NET, HTMX, tooling, or whatever else you find interesting.