Martijn Van Der Klis
Technical Lead at Infi
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartijn Van Der Klis is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience bridging academic NLP research and production engineering, currently leading technical work at Infi after four years as Lead Developer at Yoast. He holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and completed doctoral work on cross-linguistic tense semantics, which informs his practical strengths in algorithms, data mining, and natural language processing. Martijn has a history of building production systems—from transport planning and hospital BI to research-grade text-mining and experiment tooling—and moved seamlessly between Java, Python/Django, PHP, and C++ stacks. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Yoast SEO, where he improved Japanese language handling, reflecting a rare combination of linguistic insight and engineering rigor. Known for delivering pragmatic, research-informed solutions, he enjoys turning linguistic theory into robust software features.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit Utrecht
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
plugin9
seo9
wordpress9
php8
json7
django-registration6
django-signals6
django-models6
django-forms6
django-rest-framework6
django-views6
phpunit6
django6
django-templates6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 243 commits, 272 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martijn contributed to the `yoast/wordpress-seo` repository by adding a language-specific helper for matching Japanese transition words. The user focused on implementing a configuration file in JavaScript for this language. The user then merged the changes into the trunk, and this work likely improved the SEO analysis for Japanese content within the WordPress SEO plugin.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
time-in-translation/dialog-detection
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Detects dialog fragments in narrative text based on common quotation styles.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
dialogstylesquotationtext-basedfragments
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