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. (5 days ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (1 week ago)
- rust-lang/mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust (2 weeks ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (2 weeks 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 - (4 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (1 month ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (1 month ago)
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.5, 2 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- steveyegge/beads (v0.62.0, 4 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- block/goose (v1.28.0, 1 week 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, 1 week ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 2 weeks ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.0, 2 weeks 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
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.20.0, 3 months ago) - The break time reminder app
- fix(ci): fix action rename and pin GitHub Actions versions on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- feat(daemon): support short issue ID prefixes everywhere on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- rtk: head - change from master to develop on Homebrew/homebrew-core (2 days ago)
- feat(daemon): replace nng with tokio Unix sockets on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- Vendor libgit2 on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- fix(ci): fix action rename and upgrade and pin actions on neul-labs/grite (4 days ago)
- Chore - spelling updates "grit" --> "grite" on neul-labs/grite (4 days ago)
- style(bench): suppress unused code warnings on neul-labs/grite (5 days ago)
- fix(cli): correct issue action message for close/reopen on neul-labs/grite (5 days ago)
- fix(fetch): handle versioned packages in ghcr.io scope on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- always-further/nono - Kernel-enforced agent sandbox and agent security CLI and SDKs. Capability-based isolation with secure key management, atomic rollback, cryptographic immutable audit chain of provenance. Run your agents in a zero-trust environment. (1 day ago)
- tw93/Pake - 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command. (1 day ago)
- blackboardsh/electrobun - Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript. (1 day ago)
- Ataraxy-Labs/inspect - Entity-level code review for Git. Graph-based risk scoring, change classification, commit untangling. 95% recall on the Greptile benchmark. (1 day ago)
- Ataraxy-Labs/sem - Semantic version control CLI. Entity-level diff, blame, graph, and impact analysis for code. 21 languages via tree-sitter. (1 day ago)
- SethGammon/Citadel - Agent orchestration harness for Claude Code. Four-tier routing (/do), campaign persistence across sessions, parallel agents in isolated worktrees, discovery relay between waves, lifecycle hooks, circuit breaker, and 6 production-quality skills. From solo developer to institutional scale. (2 days ago)
- LekKit/RVVM - The RISC-V Virtual Machine (2 days ago)
- Skelf-Research/sigc - The Quant's Compiler: From Alpha Idea to Production in Minutes (3 days ago)
- szabodanika/microbin - A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust. (4 days ago)
- john-b-rush/agent-streams - Local agent workflow orchestrator for spec → build → skeptical review → fix → merge (4 days ago)
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