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
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection. (5 days ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (6 days ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - (1 week ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - (1 week ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (1 week ago)
- objective-see/LuLu - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall (1 week ago)
- NixOS/nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS (1 week ago)
- apache/skywalking-eyes - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses. (3 weeks ago)
- block/goose - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM (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. (1 month ago)
- block/goose (v1.27.0, today) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- steveyegge/beads (v0.58.0, 2 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.13.0-beta.3, 3 days ago) - ✨ Magical shell history
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.1.2, 1 week ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.6, 2 weeks ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.1.0, 3 weeks ago) -
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.2.1, 1 month ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- 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.
- fix: run TrackpadEvents on main thread for toNSEvent() correctness on lwouis/alt-tab-macos (2 days ago)
- fix(html): rewrite CSS url() references to use hashed filenames on rust-lang/mdBook (2 days ago)
- fix: encrypt toc.html on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (4 days ago)
- fix: require password in PageCryptBuilder on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (4 days ago)
- feat: require password on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (5 days ago)
- feat: add hk (hk.jdx.dev) as supported git hook manager on steveyegge/beads (5 days ago)
- feat: ignore files listed in
.mdbookignoreduring build on rust-lang/mdBook (1 week ago) - beads: add --HEAD on Homebrew/homebrew-core (1 week ago)
- mdbook-pagecrypt: init at 0.1.2 on NixOS/nixpkgs (1 week ago)
- chore: update dependencies on Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (1 week ago)
- neul-labs/grite - The issue tracker that lives in your repo. Built for AI agents. Works for humans. (1 day ago)
- MeisnerDan/mission-control - Open-source task management for the agentic era. The command center for solo entrepreneurs who delegate work to AI agents. (1 day ago)
- pi22by7/In-Memoria - Persistent Intelligence Infrastructure for AI Agents (1 day ago)
- aitytech/agentkits-memory - Persistent memory system for AI coding assistants via MCP. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Cline. (1 day ago)
- Gentleman-Programming/engram - Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI. (1 day ago)
- Dicklesworthstone/markdown_web_browser - Renders any URL via headless Chrome, tiles screenshots into OCR slices, and streams structured Markdown + provenance back to AI agents and pipelines (1 day ago)
- Dicklesworthstone/rust_proxy - Targeted transparent proxy using iptables+ipset to route only selected domains (API providers, cloud services) through an upstream HTTP proxy without global system changes (1 day ago)
- Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust - Fast Rust port of Steve Yegge's beads: local-first, non-invasive issue tracker storing tasks in SQLite with JSONL export for git collaboration (1 day ago)
- Ataraxy-Labs/weave - Entity-level semantic merge driver for Git. Resolves conflicts that git can't by understanding code structure via tree-sitter. 31/31 clean merges vs git's 15/31. (1 day ago)
- orhun/rustypaste - A minimal file upload/pastebin service. (1 day ago)
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