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
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (1 day ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 day ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (1 week ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (1 week ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (2 weeks ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (2 weeks ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (2 weeks ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (3 weeks ago)
- block/goose - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM (4 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-syntax-guide - A comprehensive guide to Inko 0.19.1 syntax and patterns, learned from building Inko projects. This guide focuses on commonly used patterns, gotchas, and best practices. (1 month ago)
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 day ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- block/goose (v1.27.2, 4 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- steveyegge/beads (v0.59.0, 4 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.0-beta.3, 1 week ago) - ✨ Magical shell history
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.6, 3 weeks ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.1.0, 3 weeks ago) -
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.2.1, 1 month ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (1.1.0, 1 month ago) - A Tauri-based frontend for Czkawka on macOS and Windows
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.20.0, 2 months ago) - The break time reminder app
- apache/skywalking-eyes (v0.8.0, 4 months ago) - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
- feat(core): expose
init_loggerpublicly on rust-lang/mdBook (1 day ago) - feat: URLs with no index.html suffix on rust-lang/mdBook (2 days ago)
- fix: run TrackpadEvents on main thread for toNSEvent() correctness on lwouis/alt-tab-macos (1 week ago)
- fix(html): rewrite CSS url() references to use hashed filenames on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago)
- fix: encrypt toc.html on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (1 week ago)
- fix: require password in PageCryptBuilder on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (1 week ago)
- feat: require password on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (1 week ago)
- feat: add hk (hk.jdx.dev) as supported git hook manager on steveyegge/beads (1 week ago)
- feat: ignore files listed in
.mdbookignoreduring build on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago) - beads: add --HEAD on Homebrew/homebrew-core (2 weeks ago)
- rust-lang/cmake-rs - Rust build dependency for running cmake (1 day ago)
- flexdinesh/models.dev-rss - rss feed of models.dev (1 day ago)
- martinstannard/openrtk - opencode plugin for rtk (rust token killer) (1 day ago)
- patched-codes/patchwork - Agentic AI framework for enterprise workflow automation. (1 day ago)
- rtk-ai/rtk - CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies (1 day ago)
- nguyenphutrong/quotio - Stop juggling AI accounts. Quotio is a beautiful native macOS menu bar app that unifies your Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Qwen, and Antigravity subscriptions – with real-time quota tracking and smart auto-failover for AI coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Droid. (1 day ago)
- simonw/llm-prices - Prices of various LLMs (2 days ago)
- aquaproj/aqua - Declarative CLI Version manager written in Go. Support Lazy Install, Registry, and continuous update with Renovate. CLI version is switched seamlessly (2 days ago)
- google-gemini/gemini-cli - An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. (2 days ago)
- shikijs/shiki - A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter (2 days ago)
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