Nowa Ammerlaan
System Engineer - Data Preservation
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNowa Ammerlaan is a systems engineer and experimental physicist with a decade of experience building and maintaining data acquisition hardware and scientific software for high-field magnet laboratories. Currently working in data preservation at SURF and concurrently a long-standing Gentoo developer, they bridge low-level kernel and deployment tooling with scientific Python ecosystems to make reproducible research workflows more deployable on modern platforms (including Secure Boot and unified kernel images). Their PhD work on Ising-protected superconductivity in TMD monolayers is matched by hands-on expertise in VSM and torque magnetometry, giving them a rare combination of experimental rigour and production-grade engineering. An active open-source maintainer, they contribute heavily to Gentoo’s science overlay and kernel tooling, and their Repology/GitHub footprint reflects sustained patching and packaging work that keeps scientific stacks building reliably.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Radboud UniversityHigh School, 7.4, High School, 7.4 at Citadel CollegeMaster's degree, Physics, 8.3, Master's degree, Physics, 8.3 at Radboud University Nijmegen
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (8)
gentoo10
science10
ebuild10
portia9
portal9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
qt7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo/sci
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
[MIRROR] Gentoo Science Overlay
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:366 reviews, 1558 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nowa's primary contribution involves modifying and patching existing Gentoo ebuild files for the `sci` repository. Their commits focused on porting and updating packages for scientific software. These modifications included fixing build issues, incorporating patches, and adding new dependencies for packages such as `qwtplot3d`, `scidavis`, and `clrng`. The user also added and maintained the `rpm-extended` eclass which extended the functionality of the `rpm` eclass.
ebuildgentooscienceoverlay
Nowa-Ammerlaan/gentoo
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
[MIRROR] Official Gentoo ebuild repository
Contributions:912 pushes, 268 branches, 2 comments in 5 years 4 months
ebuildgentoorevit-apiebuild-repository
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