Backend engineer with 16+ 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.
Joyfully devoted disciple of Jesus striving to love others through community at The Austin Stone.
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
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (5 days ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 weeks ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (2 weeks ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (2 weeks ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (2 months ago)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (2 months ago)
- NurudinImsirovic/windows-cursors-modern - Windows Modern Cursors – Improved Aero for DPI and Dark Mode (2 months ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (3 months ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (3 months ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (3 months ago)
- jdx/mise (v2026.8.11, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- jdx/hk (v1.56.1, 1 day ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.47.0, 3 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- tontinton/maki (v0.4.11, 4 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.554.0, 4 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- jhult/cap-releases (cap-v0.5.9, 1 week ago) - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI
- gastownhall/beads (v1.2.2, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.22.1, 1 week ago) - The break time reminder app
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.20.0-beta.3, 2 weeks ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.5.1, 2 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- Add MIT license on gboutte/audio-delay-mac (5 days ago)
- Add Apache 2.0 license on contember/typokat (1 week ago)
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (1 week ago)
- release: 0.3.0 on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- chore(CI): upgrade and pin CI actions on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- fix(state): fix root-owned state and installed files after sudo runs on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- Compute selector specificity once per rule on jsdom/jsdom (2 weeks ago)
- feat(ui): click in input to position the text cursor on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- Add branches --recursive and forks commands to clean up fully-merged repos on seachicken/gh-poi (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on emilhe/split-pr (4 weeks ago)
- kaikramer/keystore-explorer - KeyStore Explorer is a free GUI replacement for the Java command-line utilities keytool and jarsigner. (1 day ago)
- JingMatrix/LSPatch - A rootless Xposed framework that embeds Vector into an app by patching its APK — no root, no Zygisk. (2 days ago)
- danielvaughn/hz - An experimental editor that offers a novel way to write software with AI. (2 days ago)
- Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation - Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. (3 days ago)
- RookieEnough/Morphe-AutoBuilds - A clean and easy workflow that automatically builds Morphe APKs every 24 hours. (3 days ago)
- prefix-dev/pixi - Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem. (3 days ago)
- masseyzachery57/paywall-filter-extension - Badges paywalled search results, except sites you already subscribe to. (3 days ago)
- ptsochantaris/trailer-ql - A GraphQL query generator and response parser in Swift (3 days ago)
- ptsochantaris/trailer-json - A feather-weight JSON decoder in Swift (3 days ago)
- ptsochantaris/key-vine - A Keychain access wrapper in Swift, because the world needs more of these (3 days ago)
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