Scouting report
Bioinformatics & R/Shiny specialist with adopted packages
assessed from open-source footprint
Staff
92signal
Niels is a domain specialist who builds genuinely-adopted scientific tooling in R — geneviewer (99★, gene-arrow maps) and NGLVieweR (protein-structure visualization for R/Shiny) — backed by 218 total stars and a perfect consistency record. As a freelance bioinformatician and Shiny developer, he's the rare profile here with deep, credible expertise in scientific and data visualization. Ideal for biotech, research, or data-heavy R/Shiny work.
Authorship & open source
Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on geneviewer
1 merged PRs520 commits / yr
What they build
Data / ML86%
Frontend8%
Backend6%
Industry experience
- Developer Tools
- Fintech & Payments
- Web & CMS
Signal breakdown
Originality93
Impact100
Consistency100
Polish65
Stars
218
top repo 99
Original repos
20
9% forks
Followers
48
On GitHub
7.5 yr
Live demos
13
Activity
Active
25% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on geneviewer
- 520 commits in the past year
- Original builder — 20 of their own repositories
- 218 stars earned across projects
- Ships to production — 13 live demos
- Consistently active, low abandonment
- Data / ML focus with Frontend
About
Bioinformatician / Shiny Developer / Freelance — 22 public repositories and 48 followers on GitHub.
Skills
- R
- Shiny
- Python
- Ngl
- Nglviewer
- Pdb
- Protein Data Bank
- Shiny Applications