Arjan Mossel
Software Developer at Utrecht University
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorArjan Mossel is a software developer with 12 years of experience, currently working in the Research Software Lab at Utrecht University's Centre for Digital Humanities. He brings a unique blend of research and engineering skills from a PhD in linguistics focused on Andean toponymy, building linguistically annotated place-name databases with GIS, SQL, and Python. A long-time open-source contributor, he has maintained and packaged software for the Void Linux ecosystem, introducing spatial and mapping tools like spatialite-tools and libkml. Comfortable moving between research workflows and production packaging, he has a track record of digitizing language resources, building lexical databases, and developing web and audio tooling. Based in Leiden, he combines domain expertise in South American languages with practical systems work that supports reproducible research.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
linux10
package-management10
patch10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
cmake9
javas8
openjdk8
java8
build-system7
git7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
void-linux/void-packages
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Void source packages collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 18 commits, 123 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Arjan primarily contributed to updating and maintaining packages within the Void Linux repository. Their work involved updating various software packages, including dbeaver, vtk, and OpenOrienteering-Mapper, and adapting them to the Void Linux environment. This included patching source code, rebuilding packages, and ensuring compatibility with specific dependencies like proj and jdk17. The user also introduced new packages such as spatialite-tools and libkml.
package-managerlinuxbinariesvoidvoidlinux
ar-jan/void-packages
Jan 2021 - Jul 2026
The Void source packages collection
Contributions:355 pushes, 225 branches in 5 years 6 months
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