Backend engineer with 15+ years of experience in software engineering, consulting, and pre-sales, delivering scalable solutions across finance, tech, retail, and government sectors for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.
Java and Kotlin specialist focused on backend development leveraging cloud infrastructure (AWS, OCI, Cloudflare), CI/CD automation, and trunk-based development.
Experienced in async, remote-first teams since 2012.
Graduated from Iowa State University in 3 years with a BS in Management Information Systems.
Follower of Jesus at The Austin Stone Community Church.
Outside of work: disc golf, bowling, snow skiing, games, movies, rock concerts.
- Why Your Team Doesn't Need Pull Requests
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Group Decision Making Approaches
- Business Continuity
- More posts on my blog
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 weeks ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (3 weeks ago)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (1 month ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (1 month ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (1 month ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (2 months ago)
- neul-labs/homebrew-tap - (2 months ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (2 months ago)
- jhult/inko-syntax-guide - A comprehensive guide to Inko 0.19.1 syntax and patterns, learned from building Inko projects. This guide focuses on commonly used patterns, gotchas, and best practices. (2 months ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (2 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.539.0, 2 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.22.0, 2 days ago) - The break time reminder app
- jdx/mise (v2026.7.7, 4 days ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.17.1, 5 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jdx/hk (v1.51.0, 5 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.43.0, 5 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.1.7, 1 week ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- rust-lang/mdBook (v0.5.4, 1 week ago) - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
- gastownhall/beads (v1.1.0, 2 weeks ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.4.0, 1 month ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- Add MIT license on AgentWorkforce/burn (1 week ago)
- fix(link): use overwrite=true in upgrade/reinstall and surface conflicts on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- fix(doggo): use github backend for v1.2.0 asset naming on jdx/mise (3 weeks ago)
- fix(mr-karan/doggo): add version override for v1.2.0 asset naming change on aquaproj/aqua-registry (3 weeks ago)
- fix(aqua): support doggo v1.2.0 asset naming in vendored registry on jdx/mise (3 weeks ago)
- fix(casks): show which app needs admin privileges and cache sudo for session on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- fix(update): skip re-downloading index when already up to date on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- fix: retry rename on Windows transient file locks during install on jdx/mise (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on Renvect/X-Ray-Claude-Code-Interceptor (1 month ago)
- fix(link): detect broken same-package symlinks and add --overwrite flag on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- olup/open-jj - (2 days ago)
- keanemind/jjk - Jujutsu (jj) VCS support for VS Code (2 days ago)
- laulauland/jj-hunk - Non-interactive hunk distribution in jj CLI (2 days ago)
- google/or-tools - Google's Operations Research tools: (2 days ago)
- parcel-bundler/parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀 (2 days ago)
- garrettmoss/restore-claude-history - Recover deleted Claude Code chats on macOS — and back them up so they don't disappear again (4 days ago)
- ojura/claude-skills - A collection of Claude Code skills. (4 days ago)
- jpillora/chisel - A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP (4 days ago)
- DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp - High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies. (6 days ago)
- rohitg00/agentmemory - #1 Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks (6 days ago)
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