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
- akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system - Machine learning based email classification system using IMAP, XGBoost and Random Forest (1 week ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/ladybird-builds - Unofficial automated macOS arm64 builds of the Ladybird browser (AppKit GUI), packaged as DMG releases (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (3 weeks ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (1 month ago)
- neocanable/garlic - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler (1 month ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 months ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (2 months ago)
- piyushsingariya/split-pr - AI skill to split PRs (2 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (3 months ago)
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.24.1, 1 day ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jdx/mise (v2026.10.12, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.55.0, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/hk (v2.7.0, 1 day ago) - git hooks and project lints
- jsdom/jsdom (v30.1.3, 2 days ago) - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.575.0, 3 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.2.0, 3 days ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- tontinton/maki (v0.6.3, 6 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- gyscos/zstd-rs (v0.14.2, 1 week ago) - A rust binding for the zstd compression library.
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.2-rc.2, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- Add MIT license on Srinivasa000/Smart-Email-Classifier-System (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on jjcm/makefaster (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on tontinton/makiconf (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on Asaf51/maki-review (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on g4bwy/maki-plugins (1 month ago)
- feat: add --worktree flag to run maki in an isolated git worktree on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- Fix flaky tests and a macOS APFS test fallout on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- ventz/wombat-wireguard-mac-app - WireGuard, AmneziaWG and Cisco AnyConnect in one native, free and open-source macOS VPN client: SwiftUI app, Network Extension, kill switch, on-demand, and a wombat CLI (today)
- teal-language/tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua (today)
- michael-denyer/pstack-claude - Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Pi, OpenCode, Gemini, and Prime Agent versions of Poteto's pstack. Rigorous agent workflows with Cursor primitives translated for other harnesses. (today)
- kiruna-labs/petal - Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant's desktop. (1 day ago)
- deroverda/twitter-to-nitter - Firefox extension that redirects x.com/twitter.com to a working Nitter instance, chosen from live health data and instances that have worked for you before, with automatic fallback if it's rate-limited, broken, or errors out. (1 day ago)
- elia-orsini/kagi-privacy-redirects - Kagi redirects to preserve privacy while surfing the web (1 day ago)
- cordiverse/cordis - Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability (1 day ago)
- MG1937/ASC - ASC is a super FAST and lightweight Android decompiler designed for Agents/Mobile Researchers. (6 days ago)
- androguard/androguard - Reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications (6 days ago)
- Asaf51/maki-review - (6 days ago)
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