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
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (2 days ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (3 days ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-syntax-guide - A comprehensive guide to Inko 0.19.1 syntax and patterns, learned from building Inko projects. This guide focuses on commonly used patterns, gotchas, and best practices. (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (4 weeks ago)
- jhult/ol-python-api - (1 month ago)
- jhult/olcs-python-api - (1 month ago)
- inko-lang/inko - A language for building concurrent software with confidence (1 month ago)
- inko-lang/website - The Inko Programming Language website. (1 month ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.1.2, 1 day ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.2, 3 days ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.34.1, 4 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.1, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.4, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.2, 1 week ago) - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations.
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.4, 1 week ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- neul-labs/grite (v0.5.3, 1 week ago) - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans.
- jdx/hk (v1.45.0, 2 weeks ago) - git hooks and project lints
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.2, 2 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- feat(tui): implement @file injection and autocomplete on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(tui): handle Shift with special characters on all terminals on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(dep topo): include created_ts and updated_ts in topological sort output on neul-labs/grite (3 days ago)
- Remove
/privacycommand andprivacy_screenentirely on Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago) - Add more config options to
/configon Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago) - Add option to prevent cursor from blinking on Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago)
- Redesigned
/configdialog on Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago) - Remove
/privacycommand andprivacy_screenentirely on Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago) - feat(providers): OpenCode Zen, Synthetic.new, routing.run, Neuralwatt on Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago)
- fix(tui): bypass-permissions dialog only shows once per session on Kuberwastaken/claurst (5 days ago)
- Arthur-Ficial/auge - On-device vision CLI - Apple Vision framework OCR, image classification, and object detection from the command line (1 day ago)
- Arthur-Ficial/apfel - The free AI already on your Mac. CLI tool, OpenAI-compatible server, and interactive chat — all on-device via Apple Intelligence. No API keys, no cloud, no downloads. (1 day ago)
- mindee/doctr - docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning. (1 day ago)
- MisterEkole/vx-rs - A computer vision library in Rust that talks directly to Apple Silicon GPUs through Metal Shading Language. (1 day ago)
- doom-fish/vision-rs - Safe Rust bindings for Apple's Vision framework — OCR, object detection, face landmarks on macOS (1 day ago)
- robertknight/rten - ONNX neural network inference engine (1 day ago)
- kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_compiler - Kaitai Struct: compiler to translate .ksy => .cpp / .cs / .dot / .go / .java / .js / .lua / .nim / .php / .pm / .py / .rb / .rs (1 day ago)
- kaitai-io/kaitai_struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust (1 day ago)
- cclgroupltd/ccl_chromium_reader - (Sometimes partial) Python re-implementations of the technologies involved in reading various data sources in Chrome-esque applications. (1 day ago)
- lxndrblz/forensicsim - A forensic open-source parser module for Autopsy that allows extracting the messages, comments, posts, contacts, calendar entries and reactions from a Microsoft Teams IndexedDB LevelDB database. (1 day ago)
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