Rowan Goemans
Team Lead Clash Compiler at QBayLogic
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRowan Goemans is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building embedded and hardware-focused software, now leading the Clash compiler team at QBayLogic while also serving as Principal Engineer at BDT Holland. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Haskell-based hardware compilation—contributing core modules and a UART component to the well-known clash-compiler—with practical R&D and repair-capability work across medical and lighting hardware. Rowan’s background in embedded software development and a Pre-Master in Software Science gives him fluency across firmware, hardware interfaces, and compiler internals. He thrives at the intersection of research and productization, moving academic-grade tools into reliable production flows. Colleagues rely on him for debugging subtle type- and bit-level issues as well as for mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Nijmegen, he brings a methodical, detail-oriented approach informed by both lab-scale prototyping and production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Master Software Science Computer Science, Pre-Master Software Science Computer Science at Radboud UniversityBachelor’s Degree embedded software development, Bachelor’s Degree embedded software development at HAN University of Applied Sciences
German, Dutch, English
Github Skills (7)
uart10
verilog10
systemverilog10
haskell10
vhdl10
fpga9
asic8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
clash-lang/clash-compiler
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Haskell to VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog compiler
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 24 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rowan implemented core functionalities for the `clash-compiler` project, specifically focusing on the `Clash.Sized.Internal.Index`, `Clash.Class.Parity`, and `Clash.Explicit.Reset` modules. They added new features and fixed bugs within these modules, including implementing the `Bits` and `FiniteBits` classes, addressing saturation issues for `Index 1`, and incorporating a `Parity` type class. Additionally, the user added the UART component for hardware communication.
uvmasicvhdlsystemveriloghaskell
rowanG077/nixpkgs
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:62 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 11 months
nixosnix-packages
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