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 (1 week 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 (3 weeks ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (3 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 (v2026.8.13, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.20.0, 1 day ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- tontinton/maki (v0.4.12, 1 day ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.555.0, 2 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- jdx/hk (v1.56.1, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.47.0, 5 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- 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
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.5.1, 3 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- Add MIT license on gboutte/audio-delay-mac (1 week ago)
- Add Apache 2.0 license on contember/typokat (1 week ago)
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (2 weeks 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 (3 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on emilhe/split-pr (1 month ago)
- runetes/maiao - Seamless GitHub PR management from the command-line (today)
- agavra/tuicr - a code review TUI with vim keybindings (1 day ago)
- brvier/Gjallar - Gjallar is a modern monitoring and observability platform inspired by Gjallarhorn, the legendary horn of Heimdall in Norse mythology. Built for reliability and speed, Gjallar continuously watches your infrastructure, services, and applications, detecting anomalies and sounding the alarm before issues become incidents. Observe. Detect. Alert. (1 day ago)
- neocanable/garlic - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler (1 day ago)
- AppsYogi-com/ComposeYogi - The open-source Ableton-style music composer for the web. (1 day ago)
- PicoMQ/picomq - Durable streams (1 day ago)
- Nai64/Nai64Patches - A curated collection of Morphe patches that tune, unlock and declutter Android games. Skip ads, bypass license checks, hide root, force orientations and more, all from a single patcher. (2 days ago)
- kaikramer/keystore-explorer - KeyStore Explorer is a free GUI replacement for the Java command-line utilities keytool and jarsigner. (3 days ago)
- JingMatrix/LSPatch - A rootless Xposed framework that embeds Vector into an app by patching its APK — no root, no Zygisk. (4 days ago)
- danielvaughn/hz - An experimental editor that offers a novel way to write software with AI. (4 days ago)
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