I am Martijn Staal, and I am currently studying Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology, and Dutch Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University.
Resume Martijn Staal, BSc LLB
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Work & volunteer work
- Software developer at Leiden University, Leiden Law School, Institute of Public Law (Jan. 2024 - now)
- Research assistant at Leiden University, Leiden Law School, Institute of Public Law (Oct. 2023 - Dec. 2023)
- Self-employed software developer (Aug. 2023 - now)
- Trainer at DWARS, GroenLinkse Jongeren (Oct. 2021 - now)
- Training coordinator at DWARS, GroenLinkse Jongeren (Oct. 2021 - Jun. 2024)
- Policy intern Senate Parliamentary Group at GroenLinks (Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2023)
- Intern at Utopie Advocaten (Marco van Duijn), Den Haag (summer 2022)
- Treasurer at DWARS, GroenLinkse Jongeren (2020 - 2021)
- Boardmember Education and Activities at DWARS, GroenLinkse Jongeren (2020 - 2021)
- Cyber Security Analist at Pinewood B.V., Delft (2018 - 2019)
Education
- Master Constitutional and Administrative Law (LLM) at Leiden University (Sep. 2024 - now)
- Expected graduation date: July 2025.
- Master Computer Science (MSc) at the Delft University of Technology (Sep. 2023 - now)
- Expected graduation date: April 2026.
- Software Technology track
- Courses: Networking, Compiler Construction, Security and Cryptography, High performance data-networking, Software Verification, Real-time Systems, Web Science and Engineering, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Web-scale Data Management
- Bachelor Dutch Law (LLB) at Leiden University (Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2024)
- Graduated cum laude in June 2024 (8,6/10 grade average)
- Bachelor thesis: De memorie van toelichting overvraagd? Een kwantitatieve blik op het gebruik van parlementaire stukken in de Nederlandse rechtspraktijk (mei 2024)
- Electives: Introduction to internet law, Telecommunication Law, Labor law, Roman law of obligations, Comparative and International Private Law.
- Bachelor Computer Science and Engineering (BSc) at the Delft University of Technology (Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2023)
- Graduated in July 2023 (8,3/10 grade average)
- Bachelor thesis: Literature survey on improving type checker efficiency without altering the surface language
- Electives: Digital Systems, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, Algebra & Cryptography, Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems, Functional Programming
- Gymnasium (university preparatory education) at Erasimaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam (Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2018)
- Graduated cum laude in June 2018 (8,6/10 grade average)
- Nature & Technology, Nature & Health profile with Latin, economics, and history
Language proficiency
Dutch (native), English (fluent)
Digital skills
- Programming experience for personal projects in Python, C and bash; for study projects in Agda, C, C++, C#, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python and Scala.
- Hobby experience with system administration of Linux servers (Ubuntu and Debian), where I use tools such as: Ansible, dovecot, libvirtd, LXC, Grafana, MariaDB, Mediawiki, MQTT, Nextcloud, nginx, OpenSSH, OpenWrt, postfix, Prometheus, Proxmox, rspamd, systemd, and UFW.
- Contributions to several open-source software projects, among which Ansible, OpenWrt and Zotero.