Niklas Duester
Web Developer
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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RockstarNiklas Duester is a seasoned web developer based in Kiel, Germany, with 11 years of hands-on experience building robust frontends and full-stack features. He has contributed to notable open-source work, including enhancing Dependency-Track’s frontend by implementing OpenID Connect authentication, admin integration, and group-to-team mapping—demonstrating a strong focus on secure access management. Pragmatic and curious, he balances caution with results (as his GitHub quip suggests) and prefers code that works reliably even when the internals are mystifying. Comfortable across the stack, he brings practical problem-solving to production UIs and identity flows. Colleagues rely on him for shipping secure, user-facing features that integrate cleanly with organizational controls.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
oid10
user-authentication10
authentication10
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
openid-connect10
vuejs29
frontend9
api9
apim9
vuejs39
web-development8
github7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
DependencyTrack/frontend
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Frontend UI for Dependency-Track
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:349 reviews, 201 commits, 764 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to the frontend of the Dependency-Track project by implementing OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. They added an OIDC login button, introduced the necessary configuration, and integrated OIDC users into the admin interface. Furthermore, they added the capability to create and manage OIDC groups and map them to teams. The commits demonstrate an emphasis on authentication and access management within the frontend application.
frontend-uireactdependency-trackvuefrontend
nscuro/dtbench
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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