Tom Smeding
PHD Candidate
Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Smeding is a PhD candidate and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience combining rigorous mathematics and hands-on systems programming. Based in Zeist, Netherlands, he blends academic depth (summa/cum laude degrees and a cum laude MSc) with practical C++ and back-end engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Monero and performance-focused libraries such as Accelerate. His work ranges from low-level serialization and mempool fixes in a major cryptocurrency to improving pretty-printing and AST tooling in a high-performance array language, reflecting a rare comfort across theory, tooling, and production code. A pragmatic problem-solver who believes “if I can’t implement it, I don’t understand it,” he also enhances developer ergonomics (markdown handling and completion hints) in real-world projects.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Bachelor's, Computer Science, Summa cum laude at Leiden UniversityIB Diploma, IB Diploma at International BaccalaureateMaster's, Computing Science, Cum laude, Master's, Computing Science, Cum laude at Utrecht UniversityHigh school, Sciences, High school, Sciences at Dalton Den Haag
Dutch, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
markdown10
c-language10
acc10
python10
abstract-syntax-tree10
acceleration10
accelerator10
cryptocurrency10
markdown-it10
parsing10
parse10
cryptography10
blockchain10
cprogramming-language10
haskell10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
AccelerateHS/accelerate
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Embedded language for high-performance array computations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 17 commits, 22 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the Accelerate library's internal structure and improving its pretty-printing capabilities. They added a `Tags` class to `Sugar.Elt`, fixed comments in the AST, and corrected documentation related to flags within the cabal file and source code. Furthermore, they refactored the pretty-printing module to improve the formatting of tuples and let-bindings within the Accelerate AST. These changes improve the library's maintainability and the quality of its output.
cudaarrayembedded-languagegpuhaskell
poljar/weechat-matrix
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Weechat Matrix protocol script written in python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the Weechat Matrix protocol script. Their contributions included adding and refining features related to message formatting, specifically markdown parsing within the Weechat environment. They improved handling of backslashes, quotes, and code blocks, and also added the functionality to enable markdown input. Furthermore, they worked on completion hints and implementing key bindings for the reply feature.
pythonmatrixweechatmatrix-protocol
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