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
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 week ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (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 (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (2 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 (3 weeks ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (3 weeks ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (1 month ago)
- block/goose - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM (1 month ago)
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.3, today) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- steveyegge/beads (v0.61.0, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.0, 3 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 6 days ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 week ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- block/goose (v1.27.2, 1 week ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.6, 4 weeks ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (1.1.0, 1 month 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.
- fix(gui): use class selectors for sidebar-scrollbox in GUI tests on rust-lang/mdBook (1 day ago)
- feat: add MIT license on neul-labs/stout (2 days ago)
- fix: daemon issue list display and shutdown hang on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- Fix TOCTOU races in lock operations, remove dead code on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- fix: route dep and rebuild commands through daemon on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- fix(doctor): detect running daemon and skip direct store access on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- feat: allow building using cmake on gyscos/zstd-rs (1 week ago)
- Update project to use BSD-3-Clause license (#314) on gyscos/zstd-rs (1 week ago)
- feat(core): expose
init_loggerpublicly on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago) - feat: URLs with no index.html suffix on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago)
- kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg - A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 88+ formats. Available for Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, R, C, TypeScript (Node/Bun/Wasm/Deno)- or use via CLI, REST API, or MCP server. (today)
- bzsanti/oxidizePdf - a PDF library for rust (today)
- digitalbiblesociety/browserbible-4 - Bible software that runs in the browser (1 day ago)
- gracious-tech/fetch - https://fetch.bible (1 day ago)
- Bolls-Bible/bain - A web app for reading the Bible with full emphasis on the God`s Word only. Sola scriptura (1 day ago)
- westonruter/esv-text-audio-aligner - ESV Text/Audio Aligner to programmatically obtain the timings for each word in the corresponding audio (1 day ago)
- open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki - A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm (3 days ago)
- mag123c/toktrack - Ultra-fast token & cost tracker for LLM Token Usage (e.g. Claude Code) (3 days ago)
- ever-jobs/ever-jobs - Ever® Jobs™ - aggregating jobs/gigs postings from multiple sources (3 days ago)
- sgl-project/sglang - SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models. (4 days ago)
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