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 week ago)
- jhult/ladybird-builds - Unofficial automated macOS arm64 builds of the Ladybird browser (AppKit GUI), packaged as DMG releases (1 week ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (2 weeks ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (3 weeks 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. (1 month 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)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (3 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.572.0, 2 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- jdx/mise (v2026.10.3, 2 days ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- neocanable/garlic (v1.8-release-thyme, 2 days ago) - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.2-rc.1, 2 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- jdx/hk (v2.5.0, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- jsdom/jsdom (v30.1.2, 3 days ago) - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
- tontinton/maki (v0.6.0, 4 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.53.0, 5 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/pklr (v3.0.3, 1 week ago) - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator
- jhult/cap-releases (cap-v0.6.0, 1 week ago) - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI
- Add MIT license on akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system (today)
- Add MIT license on jjcm/makefaster (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on tontinton/makiconf (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on Asaf51/maki-review (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on g4bwy/maki-plugins (2 weeks ago)
- feat: add --worktree flag to run maki in an isolated git worktree on tontinton/maki (3 weeks ago)
- Fix flaky tests and a macOS APFS test fallout on tontinton/maki (3 weeks ago)
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (3 weeks ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (3 weeks ago)
- feat(instagram): reflect effective toggle state in About patch list on crimera/piko (1 month ago)
- akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system - Machine learning based email classification system using IMAP, XGBoost and Random Forest (today)
- aurelienpierreeng/VirtualSecretary - A Python framework to connect to email/contacts/agendas servers and write automated rules for efficient workflows. (1 day ago)
- c9dev/penguin-mail - Mail and calendar for Linux. Gmail and IMAP accounts, Google Calendar, contacts, OpenPGP and S/MIME. GTK4 and libadwaita, written in Rust. (1 day ago)
- EvgenyOrekhov/holiday.css - A minimalist classless CSS theme with dark mode support. Only 5 KB. (1 day ago)
- Digicreon/muCSS - Full-ffeatured CSS framework (1 day ago)
- picosh/patchbin - A pastebin for patches, supercharged for git collaboration (1 day ago)
- rush86999/atom - Atom Agent, Open-Source Governed AI Agent Platform for Self-Hosted Automation (1 day ago)
- jonashonecker/feedpaper - (1 day ago)
- adbar/trafilatura - Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML (1 day ago)
- get-vix/vix - Sleek, Fast and Token Efficient AI Coding Agent (1 day ago)
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