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/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (6 days ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (1 week ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 week ago)
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (2 weeks ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (3 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (4 weeks ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (1 month ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (1 month ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (1 month ago)
- steveyegge/beads (v0.62.0, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- block/goose (v1.28.0, 5 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.1, 6 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.3, 6 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 1 week ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- 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
- 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(daemon): replace nng with tokio Unix sockets on neul-labs/grite (today)
- Vendor libgit2 on neul-labs/grite (today)
- fix(ci): fix action rename and upgrade and pin actions on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- Chore - spelling updates "grit" --> "grite" on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- style(bench): suppress unused code warnings on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- fix(cli): correct issue action message for close/reopen on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- fix(fetch): handle versioned packages in ghcr.io scope on neul-labs/stout (4 days ago)
- chore(daemon): remove unused code on neul-labs/grite (5 days ago)
- fix(gui): use class selectors for sidebar-scrollbox in GUI tests on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago)
- feat: add MIT license on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- szabodanika/microbin - A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust. (1 day ago)
- john-b-rush/agent-streams - Local agent workflow orchestrator for spec → build → skeptical review → fix → merge (1 day ago)
- helix-editor/nucleo - A fast and convenient fuzzy matcher library for rust (1 day ago)
- can1357/llm-git - AI commit message generator. Conventional commits, compose mode, and history rewrite via Claude/GPT APIs. (2 days ago)
- cyrusradfar/homebrew-unf - Repo for UNF (2 days ago)
- IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News - A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI (2 days ago)
- Geek-1001/arcmark - macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar (2 days ago)
- russellmoss/agent-guard - (2 days ago)
- inferadb/teapot - Teapot — Rust TUI framework inspired by Bubble Tea (2 days ago)
- 2389-research/boba - A Bubble Tea-inspired TUI framework for Rust, built on ratatui (2 days ago)
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