Backend engineer with 16+ 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.
Joyfully devoted disciple of Jesus striving to love others through community at The Austin Stone.
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
- akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system - Machine learning based email classification system using IMAP, XGBoost and Random Forest (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (1 month ago)
- jhult/ladybird-builds - Unofficial automated macOS arm64 builds of the Ladybird browser (AppKit GUI), packaged as DMG releases (1 month ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (1 month ago)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (1 month ago)
- neocanable/garlic - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler (1 month ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 months ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (2 months ago)
- piyushsingariya/split-pr - AI skill to split PRs (3 months ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (4 months ago)
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.24.3, today) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jdx/mise (v2026.10.22, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.57.0, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.579.0, 1 day ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.5.4, 2 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jdx/hk (v2.9.0, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.2.1, 3 days ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v3.2, 4 days ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.2, 5 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- tontinton/maki (v0.6.5, 6 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- Add MIT license on Srinivasa000/Smart-Email-Classifier-System (3 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on akash-k-yadav/email-intelligence-system (3 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on jjcm/makefaster (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on tontinton/makiconf (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on Asaf51/maki-review (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on g4bwy/maki-plugins (1 month ago)
- feat: add --worktree flag to run maki in an isolated git worktree on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- Fix flaky tests and a macOS APFS test fallout on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (1 month ago)
- emmilco/us-tax-model - US federal income tax forms and instructions as cited, executable, machine-checkable data. (1 day ago)
- column-tax/tax-calc-bench - Code & data for TaxCalcBench (1 day ago)
- epthewizard/Export-Authy-Tokens - I was having trouble following the guides and they were all more convoluted than they needed to be. So I created this repo to hopefully help some people export their Authy tokens a bit easier. (1 day ago)
- tals/corgi - Happy helper for your terminal (5 days ago)
- qxoticai/qxotic - AI sovereignty for the world's most trusted runtime. (5 days ago)
- humanlayer/humanlayer - The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases. (5 days ago)
- crmne/fastframe - egui on rails: the shared foundation for native Rust apps built with egui (1 week ago)
- crmne/zapfast - ZapFast: a fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui (1 week ago)
- crmne/tonepush - Open-source editor and tone library for Line 6 HX pedals and the StompStation PRO. Shared GUI, CLI, cloud library, and reverse-engineered USB protocols. (1 week ago)
- sinelaw/inty - Type checker for dynamic languages like JavaScript & Python, with full type inference and no transpilation (1 week ago)
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