Daniel Nüst
PhD Candidate
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Nüst is a PhD candidate, postdoctoral researcher, and research software engineer specializing in reproducible, FAIR, and open geoscientific research at TU Dresden, with 16 years of software and GIS experience. He builds tools and infrastructure that make research more discoverable and reproducible, contributing to projects such as NFDI4Earth, KOMET, and CODECHECK. An active open-source maintainer, he has extended major Jupyter ecosystem projects like BinderHub and repo2docker—adding cloud providers and Stencila support—while also improving scientific publishing templates in rticles. Based in Berlin, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering to bridge geoinformatics, DevOps, and documentation, and is known for turning complex reproducibility requirements into usable developer workflows.
16 years of coding experience
English, Swedish, German
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Github Skills (32)
git10
docker10
jupyterhub10
python10
jupyter10
api-design10
r10
dockers10
latex10
build-automation10
rmarkdown10
documentation10
journal9
binder9
rt9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rticles
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to updating and improving the LaTeX journal article templates within the `rticles` repository. The user's work focused on incorporating changes from the Copernicus Publications template, including version updates, the addition of features like multiple corresponding authors, and refinements to the class files. They also made updates to documentation and made minor adjustments to code in R files.
latexrrmarkdownjournalr-package
jupyterhub/repo2docker
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 93 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `repo2docker` project by adding support for Stencila documents, focusing on integrating Stencila's features. They modified the build process to extract execution contexts from Stencila documents and install necessary dependencies (R and Python packages). Their work involved updating versions of Stencila packages and adapting the user interface to reflect the integration. Additionally, the user worked on improving the Docker image build process by changing Stencila detection logic and addressing build failures.
docker-imagejupyterjupyterhubdocker
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