Marten Postma
Docent Informatica
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMarten Postma is an experienced computational linguist and educator with 12 years of experience bridging language research and practical software development. As a former VU Amsterdam postdoc and PhD researcher he has published on language understanding, coordinated multidisciplinary research teams, and supervised doctoral work while developing and teaching computational linguistics courses. He now teaches computer science at Corderius College, applying academic rigor to classroom practice and mentoring the next generation of developers. Marten contributes to open educational tooling—updating Jupyter notebooks and Python text-analysis materials—showing a knack for full-stack courseware improvements rather than only backend research. Fluent in French and trained at Utrecht University with top honors, he combines deep linguistic insight with hands-on coding to extract structure from unstructured text. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex language data problems into teachable, reproducible solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics: the Study of the Language Faculty, 8 (cum laude), Research Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics: the Study of the Language Faculty, 8 (cum laude) at Utrecht University
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (8)
xml10
jupyter-notebook10
python10
assign9
manage9
documentation7
data-analysis6
text-analysis5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cltl/python-for-text-analysis
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
If you want to use Python for text analysis, this course is for you!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 90 commits, 70 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marten updated and modified several Jupyter Notebooks related to XML and assignment submissions. The changes involved code modifications in `Notebooks/Topic 5 - XML and conversion.ipynb` and `Notebooks/ASSIGNMENT-4.ipynb`. Additionally, the user integrated the changes from master branch into a local branch, and made several small change in a dummy exam and final assignment notebooks.
nlpnatural-language-processingpythonpython3
cltl/run_open-sesame
May 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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