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/recalldory - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (1 day ago)
- jdx/hk - git hooks and project lints (2 days ago)
- jdx/pklr - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator (2 days ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (4 days ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (4 days ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (1 week ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (1 week ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (2 weeks ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (1 month ago)
- rust-lang/mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust (1 month ago)
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.30.0, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/hk (v1.41.0, 4 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.0, 6 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.6, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.1, 3 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 4 weeks ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 month ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.0, 1 month ago) - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations.
- 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
- fix(deps): update rust crate pklr to 0.4.1 on jdx/hk (1 day ago)
- fix: resolve nullable outer property access and semicolons on jdx/pklr (2 days ago)
- fix(cleanup): clean cask artifact download cache on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- feat: sort issues by created timestamp instead of by ID on neul-labs/grite (4 days ago)
- feat: add MIT license on sudharsan-ak/recruiter-finder (6 days ago)
- feat: cask support with unified command interface on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat(doctor): codesign verification with auto-repair on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat: add WAL backfill for sled events and sync operations on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- feat: shared sled model with idempotent init and orphan merge on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- feat(sync): add git credential support for remote auth on neul-labs/grite (1 week ago)
- kingnobro/Chat2SVG - (CVPR 2025) Code of "Chat2SVG: Vector Graphics Generation with Large Language Models and Image Diffusion Models" (today)
- Tboworst/internship-tracker - (2 days ago)
- moseslua/free-code-synthetic - Free Code wrapper for synthetic.new API - use Kimi-K2.5 and other models for free (2 days ago)
- paoloanzn/free-code - [NOTE] Parent repo is migrating ownership, until the operation is done this repo is blocked. The free build of Claude Code. All telemetry removed, security-prompt guardrails stripped, all experimental features enabled. (2 days ago)
- kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api - Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs. (3 days ago)
- getzola/giallo - Syntax highlighter, same output as VSCode (3 days ago)
- brychanrobot/jj-view - (3 days ago)
- plastic-labs/honcho - Memory library for building stateful agents (4 days ago)
- NousResearch/hermes-agent - The agent that grows with you (4 days ago)
- entireio/cli - Entire is a new developer platform that hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push, unifying your code with its context and reasoning. (4 days ago)
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