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 day ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (1 day ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (5 days ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (1 month ago)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (2 months ago)
- NurudinImsirovic/windows-cursors-modern - Windows Modern Cursors – Improved Aero for DPI and Dark Mode (2 months ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A learning memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (2 months ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (2 months ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (2 months ago)
- neul-labs/homebrew-tap - (3 months ago)
- jdx/mise (v2026.8.3, 3 days ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.20.0-beta.3, 3 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jdx/hk (v1.54.1, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.550.0, 3 days ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.5.1, 5 days ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v3.1.2, 1 week ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.45.0, 1 week ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jsdom/jsdom (v30.0.1, 1 week ago) - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
- gastownhall/beads (v1.1.2, 2 weeks ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.22.0, 3 weeks ago) - The break time reminder app
- release: 0.3.0 on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- chore(CI): upgrade and pin CI actions on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- fix(state): fix root-owned state and installed files after sudo runs on neul-labs/stout (2 days ago)
- Compute selector specificity once per rule on jsdom/jsdom (4 days ago)
- feat(ui): click in input to position the text cursor on tontinton/maki (4 days ago)
- Add branches --recursive and forks commands to clean up fully-merged repos on seachicken/gh-poi (6 days ago)
- Add MIT license on emilhe/split-pr (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on piyushsingariya/split-pr (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on AgentWorkforce/burn (1 month ago)
- fix(link): use overwrite=true in upgrade/reinstall and surface conflicts on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- stablyai/orca - Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS. (today)
- openchamber/openchamber - Desktop and web interface for OpenCode AI agent (today)
- zibo-chen/rust-paddle-ocr - 高性能OCR识别库，支持上百种语言，提供命令行、图形界面及C API多种调用方式，使用便捷高效。 High-performance OCR library powered by PaddleOCR v4/v5/v6 with MNN backend. Supports 10+ languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc). Provides Rust crate + C API + CLI tools. Fast, lightweight, easy-to-integrate. (1 day ago)
- simion/termic - Open-source Conductor.build alternative. Runs the real claude/gemini/codex CLIs in real terminals, no SDK middleman (1 day ago)
- n0-computer/noq - noq, a QUIC implementation in Rust (2 days ago)
- looplj/axonhub - ⚡️ Open-source AI Gateway — Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing. (3 days ago)
- herdrdev/herdr - the runtime your coding agents live on (3 days ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (4 days ago)
- rbreaves/kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows. (4 days ago)
- RedBearAK/Toshy - Keymapper config to make Linux keyboard shortcuts work like a 'Tosh! And more. (A Kinto alternative.) (4 days ago)
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