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/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. (4 days ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/forms - Misc forms (3 weeks ago)
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri - A Tauri-based frontend for Czkawka on macOS and Windows (3 weeks ago)
- FiorenMas/Revanced-And-Revanced-Extended-Non-Root - Real-time repository build Revanced and Revanced Extended about 10 minutes after patch release (3 weeks ago)
- languagetool-org/languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages (1 month ago)
- atuinsh/atuin - ✨ Magical shell history (1 month ago)
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN - Modern Android client for Hacker News (1 month ago)
- hovancik/stretchly - The break time reminder app (1 month ago)
- centminmod/my-claude-code-setup - Shared starter template configuration and CLAUDE.md memory bank system for Claude Code (6 months ago)
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (1.1.0, 6 days ago) - A Tauri-based frontend for Czkawka on macOS and Windows
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.11.0, 1 week ago) - ✨ Magical shell history
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.20.0, 1 month ago) - The break time reminder app
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.5, 1 month ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- tacogips/async-graphql-reverse (v0.6.1, 2 years ago) -
- geldata/gel-java (0.3.0, 2 years ago) - The official Java client library for EdgeDB
- FiorenMas/Revanced-And-Revanced-Extended-Non-Root (all, 2 years ago) - Real-time repository build Revanced and Revanced Extended about 10 minutes after patch release
- fix: dispatch ADD_ACTIVE_SESSION event before navigating from "View All" on block/goose (1 day ago)
- chore(docs): update GOOSE_SESSION_ID -> AGENT_SESSION_ID on block/goose (1 day ago)
- fix: don't steal focus from user's active element when handling consents on cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic (6 days ago)
- feat: detect context window limit errors for auto-compact on dejay2/glmproxy (1 week ago)
- docs: update
README-ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL→glm4.7on dejay2/glmproxy (2 weeks ago) - feat: pin GitHub Actions versions to a full length commit SHA on FiorenMas/Revanced-And-Revanced-Extended-Non-Root (2 weeks ago)
- Refactor build/utils.sh on FiorenMas/Revanced-And-Revanced-Extended-Non-Root (2 weeks ago)
- chore(deps): upgrade APKEditor from 1.4.2 to 1.4.7 on FiorenMas/Revanced-And-Revanced-Extended-Non-Root (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on krlohnes/claude-code-nudger (3 weeks ago)
- czkawka: add --HEAD and add krokiet (new GUI) on Homebrew/homebrew-core (3 weeks ago)
- ben-rogerson/git-worktree-toolbox - Easily manage git worktrees, launch tasks and work on multiple features in parallel. (1 day ago)
- cameronsjo/claude-squad - Manage multiple AI terminal agents like Claude Code, Aider, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp. (1 day ago)
- block/goose - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM (2 days ago)
- TrustTunnel/TrustTunnel - Modern, fast and obfuscated VPN protocol (2 days ago)
- OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl - Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine (2 days ago)
- lancedb/lancedb - Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less. (2 days ago)
- freedomofpress/dangerzone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs (2 days ago)
- blader/humanizer - Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing from text (3 days ago)
- vlang/vinix - Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language (3 days ago)
- vlang/ui - A cross-platform UI library written in V (3 days ago)
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