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
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (5 days ago)
- gyscos/zstd-rs - A rust binding for the zstd compression library. (5 days ago)
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (6 days ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (2 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (2 weeks ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (3 weeks ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (3 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 - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM (1 month ago)
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.0, 1 day ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.2, 2 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- steveyegge/beads (v0.60.0, 3 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 4 days ago) -
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 6 days ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- block/goose (v1.27.2, 1 week ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.6, 3 weeks ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (1.1.0, 1 month 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.
- feat: add MIT license on neul-labs/stout (today)
- fix: daemon issue list display and shutdown hang on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- Fix TOCTOU races in lock operations, remove dead code on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- fix: route dep and rebuild commands through daemon on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- fix(doctor): detect running daemon and skip direct store access on neul-labs/grite (1 day ago)
- feat: allow building using cmake on gyscos/zstd-rs (5 days ago)
- Update project to use BSD-3-Clause license (#314) on gyscos/zstd-rs (5 days ago)
- feat(core): expose
init_loggerpublicly on rust-lang/mdBook (6 days ago) - feat: URLs with no index.html suffix on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago)
- fix: run TrackpadEvents on main thread for toNSEvent() correctness on lwouis/alt-tab-macos (1 week ago)
- open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki - A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm (1 day ago)
- mag123c/toktrack - Ultra-fast token & cost tracker for LLM Token Usage (e.g. Claude Code) (1 day ago)
- ever-jobs/ever-jobs - Ever® Jobs™ - aggregating jobs/gigs postings from multiple sources (1 day ago)
- sgl-project/sglang - SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/ringlet - One CLI to rule all your coding agents. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/m9m - Agentic Workflow Automation at Ludicrous Speed (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/fast-litellm - High-performance Rust acceleration for LiteLLM - providing significant performance improvements for connection pooling, rate limiting, and memory-intensive workloads. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/fastworker - Add background workers to your FastAPI and Python applications in seconds, without the complexity. (2 days ago)
- neul-labs/fast-langgraph - High-performance Rust accelerators for LangGraph applications. Drop-in components that provide up to 700x speedups for checkpoint operations and 10-50x speedups for state management. (2 days ago)
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