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
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (3 days ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (3 days ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (1 week ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim like Lua plugins (1 week ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (1 month 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 (2 months ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (2 months ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (2 months ago)
- jdx/hk (v1.55.0, 1 day ago) - git hooks and project lints
- gastownhall/beads (v1.2.1, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- tontinton/maki (v0.4.6, 1 day ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim like Lua plugins
- jdx/mise (v2026.8.4, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.20.0-beta.3, 5 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.550.0, 5 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.5.1, 1 week ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v3.1.2, 1 week ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.45.0, 2 weeks ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jsdom/jsdom (v30.0.1, 2 weeks ago) - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (1 day ago)
- release: 0.3.0 on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- chore(CI): upgrade and pin CI actions on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- fix(state): fix root-owned state and installed files after sudo runs on neul-labs/stout (4 days ago)
- Compute selector specificity once per rule on jsdom/jsdom (6 days ago)
- feat(ui): click in input to position the text cursor on tontinton/maki (6 days ago)
- Add branches --recursive and forks commands to clean up fully-merged repos on seachicken/gh-poi (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on emilhe/split-pr (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on piyushsingariya/split-pr (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on AgentWorkforce/burn (1 month ago)
- MinishLab/semble - Fast and Accurate Code Search for Agents. Uses 99% fewer tokens than grep+read (1 day ago)
- prime-radiant-inc/obol - Read an AI-agent transcript and estimate what it cost — a Rust core with C-ABI bindings for Python, Go, and TypeScript (Bun + Node). (1 day ago)
- tontinton/miso - A query engine over semi-structured logs (1 day ago)
- tontinton/panther - A shellcode compiler (1 day ago)
- tontinton/dbeel - A distributed thread-per-core document database (1 day ago)
- OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax - A minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C. (2 days ago)
- sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi - Code. Music. Live. (2 days ago)
- stablyai/orca - Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS. (2 days ago)
- openchamber/openchamber - Desktop and web interface for OpenCode AI agent (2 days ago)
- zibo-chen/rust-paddle-ocr - 高性能OCR识别库，支持上百种语言，提供命令行、图形界面及C API多种调用方式，使用便捷高效。 High-performance OCR library powered by PaddleOCR v4/v5/v6 with MNN backend. Supports 10+ languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc). Provides Rust crate + C API + CLI tools. Fast, lightweight, easy-to-integrate. (3 days ago)
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