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. (3 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. (1 week 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) (3 weeks ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (4 weeks ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (4 weeks ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (1 month ago)
- block/goose (v1.28.0, 2 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, 3 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.3, 3 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- steveyegge/beads (v0.61.0, 4 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 1 week ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 week 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.
- fix(fetch): handle versioned packages in ghcr.io scope on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- chore(daemon): remove unused code on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- fix(gui): use class selectors for sidebar-scrollbox in GUI tests on rust-lang/mdBook (4 days ago)
- feat: add MIT license on neul-labs/stout (5 days ago)
- fix: daemon issue list display and shutdown hang on neul-labs/grite (6 days ago)
- Fix TOCTOU races in lock operations, remove dead code on neul-labs/grite (6 days ago)
- fix: route dep and rebuild commands through daemon on neul-labs/grite (6 days ago)
- fix(doctor): detect running daemon and skip direct store access on neul-labs/grite (6 days ago)
- feat: allow building using cmake on gyscos/zstd-rs (1 week ago)
- Update project to use BSD-3-Clause license (#314) on gyscos/zstd-rs (1 week ago)
- dy0gu/mattermost-plugin-freemium - MM plugin that injects custom code into the app to remove ads and enterprise branding, among other QOL improvements. (today)
- apartmentlines/mattermost-plugin-poor-mans-scheduled-messages - Mattermost plugin to schedule messages via /schedule slash command (today)
- kubedoio/rustchat - rustchat is an alternative Online Messaging and Collaboration tool. Alternative to Slack, Mattermost, Zulip (1 day ago)
- colanode/colanode - Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data (1 day ago)
- orbitdb/orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web (1 day ago)
- TryQuiet/quiet - A private, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS (1 day ago)
- SparkDevNetwork/Rock - An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one. (1 day ago)
- neul-labs/rninja - Build faster. Cache smarter. Drop-in ready. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/rewget - wget, but it works everywhere. (2 days ago)
- chmln/sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative) (3 days ago)
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