About me

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

Here a short version of my resume. If you want to know more about me, please get in touch.

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)
  • Bachelor Computer Science and Engineering (BSc) at the Delft University of Technology (Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2023)
  • 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.