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. (1 week ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (1 week ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (1 week ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (3 weeks ago)
- rust-lang/mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (3 weeks ago)
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (3 weeks ago)
- gastownhall/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (1 month ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (1 month ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (1 month ago)
- block/goose (v1.29.1, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.0, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.6, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.1, 2 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 3 weeks ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 3 weeks ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.0, 4 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
- feat: add MIT license on sudharsan-ak/recruiter-finder (1 day ago)
- feat: cask support with unified command interface on neul-labs/stout (2 days ago)
- feat(doctor): codesign verification with auto-repair on neul-labs/stout (2 days ago)
- feat: add WAL backfill for sled events and sync operations on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- feat: shared sled model with idempotent init and orphan merge on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- feat(sync): add git credential support for remote auth on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- fix(tests): use default_prefix() instead of hard-coding /opt/homebrew on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- feat: add MIT license on mahozad/cutcon (5 days ago)
- fix: add required fields to marketplace.json on assafkip/research-mode (1 week ago)
- feat: add MIT license on assafkip/research-mode (1 week ago)
- tursodatabase/agentfs - The filesystem for agents. (1 day ago)
- VectifyAI/PageIndex - 📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG (1 day ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 day ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (1 day ago)
- yasingedik/cleanedin - CleanedIn is a Manifest V3 extension that filters LinkedIn feed noise with compact, rule-based controls. (1 day ago)
- Robert01101101/hide-applied-jobs-linkedin - Chrome extension that hides jobs already applied to in the LinkedIn job search. (1 day ago)
- apache/fineract - Apache Fineract (1 day ago)
- slovensko-digital/autogram - New, prettier and better tool for signing documents. (1 day ago)
- ironcalc/IronCalc - Main engine of the IronCalc ecosystem (1 day ago)
- trailbaseio/trailbase - An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in WebAssembly runtime, realtime subscriptions, auth, and admin UI built on Rust, SQLite & Wasmtime. (1 day ago)
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