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
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- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (1 day ago)
- jhult/ladybird-builds - Unofficial automated macOS arm64 builds of the Ladybird browser (AppKit GUI), packaged as DMG releases (6 days ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (1 week ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (2 weeks ago)
- neocanable/garlic - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler (3 weeks ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (1 month ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (1 month ago)
- piyushsingariya/split-pr - AI skill to split PRs (2 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (3 months ago)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (3 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.569.0, 1 day ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.1-rc.2, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- jdx/mise (v2026.9.17, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- jdx/pklr (v3.0.3, 2 days ago) - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator
- tontinton/maki (v0.5.7, 2 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- jdx/hk (v2.4.0, 2 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- jhult/cap-releases (cap-v0.6.0, 6 days ago) - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.52.0, 1 week ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jsdom/jsdom (v30.1.1, 1 week ago) - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.23.0, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- Add MIT license on jjcm/makefaster (1 day ago)
- Add MIT license on tontinton/makiconf (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on Asaf51/maki-review (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on g4bwy/maki-plugins (1 week ago)
- feat: add --worktree flag to run maki inside a git worktree on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- Fix flaky tests and a macOS APFS test fallout on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- feat(instagram): reflect effective toggle state in About patch list on crimera/piko (3 weeks ago)
- feat: treat xapk/apks split-APK containers as APK files on neocanable/garlic (3 weeks ago)
- contember/okena - A fast, native terminal multiplexer built in Rust with GPUI (the UI framework from Zed editor). Tabs, splits, detachable windows, command palette, and automatic workspace restore. (1 day ago)
- jjcm/diffui-bb - Diffui plugin for bb: canvases, Build with bb, and @diffui mentions. (1 day ago)
- jjcm/makefaster - Make Faster — website performance tools and site leaderboard (1 day ago)
- writefreely/writefreely - A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community. (1 day ago)
- havenweb/haven - Self-hostable private blogging (1 day ago)
- skhoroshavin/pi-unflip - fix corrupted text (stray CJK, homoglyph flips) in pi assistant responses (2 days ago)
- pbakaus/impeccable - The design language that makes your AI harness better at design. (2 days ago)
- bensyverson/jobs - An agent-first CLI-based hierarchical task manager backed by SQLite (2 days ago)
- ljtn/epiq - Distributed, code-native issue tracker - audit workflows via time-travel (2 days ago)
- xprivo/ai-chat - xPrivo is the privacy-first AI assistant that you can self-host. No accounts, never. Free as in freedom. (3 days ago)
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