About me

I am Maarten van Gompel, also known as proycon on the internet. Welcome to my homepage where I share some of my work and interests. I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with my boyfriend Hans and our dog Jaiko. I work as a research software engineer (just a fancy word for computer programmer) in the field of Natural Language Processing at the KNAW Humanities Cluster and at Radboud University (Nijmegen). I'm also active in the Free and Open Source Software community.

I am very passionate about both languages and technology, and especially those areas where they meet!

My Interests

• Foreign Languages (🇪🇸 Español, 🇧🇷 Português, 🇫🇷 Français, 🇩🇪 Deutsch, Esperanto, 🇮🇹 Italiano, 🇨🇳 汉语, 🇷🇺 Русский, عربية)
• 🐧 Linux and Free and Open Source Software
• Software development (🐍 Python, 🦀 Rust, C, C++, 🐚 Shell scripting, Javascript)
• Natural Language Processing
• Cybersecurity, Privacy, Minimalism, Decentralisation
• System Administration (DevOps)
• Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence (but not the kind that is being hyped nowadays)
• Home Automation, IoT
• Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Politics
• 🛩 Flight simulation (X-Plane & VATSIM)
• 🎹 Playing the piano
• 📖 Reading (mostly SciFi)
• 🏊 Swimming
• 🐱 Cats & 🐶 Dogs
• 🏳️‍🌈 Men