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/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (5 days ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (1 week ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 week ago)
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (1 week ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (3 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (3 weeks ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (1 month ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (1 month ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (1 month ago)
- block/goose (v1.28.0, 4 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.1, 5 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.3, 5 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- steveyegge/beads (v0.61.0, 6 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 1 week ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 week ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.6, 1 month ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (1.1.0, 2 months ago) - A Tauri-based frontend for Czkawka on macOS and Windows
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.20.0, 2 months ago) - The break time reminder app
- apache/skywalking-eyes (v0.8.0, 4 months ago) - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
- style(bench): suppress unused code warnings on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- fix(cli): correct issue action message for close/reopen on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- fix(fetch): handle versioned packages in ghcr.io scope on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- chore(daemon): remove unused code on neul-labs/grite (4 days ago)
- fix(gui): use class selectors for sidebar-scrollbox in GUI tests on rust-lang/mdBook (6 days ago)
- feat: add MIT license on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- fix: daemon issue list display and shutdown hang on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- Fix TOCTOU races in lock operations, remove dead code on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- fix: route dep and rebuild commands through daemon on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- fix(doctor): detect running daemon and skip direct store access on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- can1357/llm-git - AI commit message generator. Conventional commits, compose mode, and history rewrite via Claude/GPT APIs. (1 day ago)
- cyrusradfar/homebrew-unf - Repo for UNF (1 day ago)
- IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News - A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (1 day ago)
- Geek-1001/arcmark - macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar (1 day ago)
- russellmoss/agent-guard - (1 day ago)
- inferadb/teapot - Teapot — Rust TUI framework inspired by Bubble Tea (1 day ago)
- 2389-research/boba - A Bubble Tea-inspired TUI framework for Rust, built on ratatui (1 day ago)
- whit3rabbit/bubbletea-rs - A rust implementation of Bubbletea https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea (1 day ago)
- NVIDIA/OpenShell - OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. (2 days ago)
- jech/galene - The Galène videoconference server (2 days ago)
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