Resume Martijn Staal, BSc LLB
Here a short version of my resume. If you want to know more about me, please get in touch.
Work & volunteer work
- Trainer at DWARS, GroenLinkse Jongeren (Oct. 2021 - now)
- Student assistant at Leiden University, Leiden Law School, Institute of Public Law (Jan. 2025 - Jun. 2025)
- Software developer at Leiden University, Leiden Law School, Institute of Public Law (Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2024)
- Research assistant at Leiden University, Leiden Law School, Institute of Public Law (Oct. 2023 - Dec. 2023)
- Self-employed software developer (Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2024)
- 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 (Jul. 2022 - Aug. 2022)
- Legal advisor at Wetswinkel Delfland, Delft (Sep. 2021 - Aug. 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 - Aug. 2025)
- Graduated cum laude in August 2025 (8,8/10 grade average)
- Master thesis: That's for later: the admission and use of differntiated entry into force for parliamentary acts, assessed from the perspectieve of the primacy of the legislature (june 2025) (9,0/10) (in Dutch)
- Electives: Media law, Legislation
- Master Computer Science (MSc) at the Delft University of Technology (Sep. 2023 - Nov. 2024)
- 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, Literature Survey
- 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, Rust, 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 (Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu), where I use tools such as: Ansible, caddy, dovecot, drupal, git, Grafana, Loki, LXC, MariaDB, Mediawiki, MQTT, Nextcloud, nginx, OpenSSH, OpenWrt, podman, postfix, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Proxmox, rspamd, systemd, and UFW.
- Contributions to several open-source software projects, among which Ansible, OpenWrt and Zotero.