Sheean Spoel
Research Software Engineer at Utrecht University
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSheean Spoel is a Research Software Engineer with eight years of experience blending software architecture, usability-focused web development, and computational linguistics in academic research settings. Based at Utrecht University's Digital Humanities Lab, he builds and maintains research-grade tools and databases, often working autonomously or as part of larger interdisciplinary teams. His technical breadth spans C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, SQL, R and front-end stacks, with a strong affinity for designing usable implementations that bridge linguistic research and practical software. Trained in both computer science and linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that helps translate scholarly requirements into robust, user-centered systems. Known for coaching and troubleshooting, he also has formal experience in information security and production marketing systems, which informs a pragmatic, security-aware approach to research software delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Linguistics, BA, Linguistics at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German, Russian, French
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Github Skills (93)
feature-extraction10
ccl10
text-based9
entity9
nlp9
digital-humanities9
lda9
complexity9
orange9
esi9
django8
catalyst8
corpus-linguistics8
xml8
text-analysis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UUDigitalHumanitieslab/GrETEL-upload
Sep 2017 - Nov 2023
Upload treebanks for use in GrETEL
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 76 pushes in 6 years 3 months
CentreForDigitalHumanities/wisselwerking
Oct 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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