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. (1 week ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (2 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. (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/ol-python-api - (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/olcs-python-api - (3 weeks ago)
- inko-lang/website - The Inko Programming Language website. (1 month ago)
- inko-lang/inko - A language for building concurrent software with confidence (1 month ago)
- jdx/pklr - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator (1 month ago)
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.4, 2 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.2, 2 days ago) - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations.
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.4, 3 days ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- neul-labs/grite (v0.5.3, 4 days ago) - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans.
- jdx/hk (v1.45.0, 6 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.2, 1 week ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.33.1, 1 week ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.0, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.21.0, 2 weeks ago) - The break time reminder app
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.1, 3 weeks ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- Update README on sanand0/llmpricing (1 week ago)
- Stop launchd services before uninstall on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- Use GitHub repo verification for taps on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat(info): fall back to Homebrew API for casks not in stout-index on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat(reinstall): skip re-extraction when bottle is unchanged on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- Add @@HOMEBREW_JAVA@@ placeholder support on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- feat: add reverse dependency (dependents) support across info, uses, uninstall, and why on neul-labs/stout (3 weeks ago)
- feat(doctor): add code signature and dylib dependency checks on neul-labs/stout (3 weeks ago)
- feat(upgrade): add cask upgrade detection and revision handling on neul-labs/stout (3 weeks ago)
- Fix Zig linker compatibility for cross-compilation on inko-lang/inko (1 month ago)
- NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer - A unified library of SOTA model optimization techniques like quantization, pruning, distillation, speculative decoding, etc. It compresses deep learning models for downstream deployment frameworks like TensorRT-LLM, TensorRT, vLLM, etc. to optimize inference speed. (3 days ago)
- QwenLM/Qwen3.6 - Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group. (3 days ago)
- neuralwatt/neuralwatt-tools - Tools and recipes for using the Neuralwatt inference API. (4 days ago)
- chopratejas/headroom - The Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications (4 days ago)
- oraios/serena - A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent (4 days ago)
- templatical/sdk - Open-source drag-and-drop email editor. JSON templates, MJML rendering, framework-agnostic. Vue + TipTap inside. (4 days ago)
- better-auth/better-auth - The most comprehensive authentication framework (4 days ago)
- thamwangjun/clearest - Your favorite Terminal Coding Agent, now in Rust (5 days ago)
- shaunpatterson/buzzline - A BeeLine reader extension that doesn't suck ass (6 days ago)
- dusty-phillips/inko-regex - Basic regular expression parser in pure inko (1 week ago)
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