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/recalldory - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (1 day ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (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-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (3 weeks ago)
- jhult/ol-python-api - (4 weeks ago)
- jhult/olcs-python-api - (4 weeks ago)
- inko-lang/website - The Inko Programming Language website. (1 month ago)
- inko-lang/inko - A language for building concurrent software with confidence (1 month ago)
- jdx/pklr - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator (1 month ago)
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.34.0, 1 day 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, 2 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.4, 5 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.2, 5 days ago) - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations.
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.4, 6 days 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, 1 week ago) - git hooks and project lints
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.2, 1 week ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.21.0, 2 weeks ago) - The break time reminder app
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.1, 4 weeks ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- Enable Cmd+C / Cmd+V on macOS; enable kitty keyboard protocol on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- feat(tui): Ollama - local + Cloud on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- feat(tui): auto-copy selection to clipboard on mouse release on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- chore: enhance skill on neul-labs/grite (today)
- feat: make context optional on neul-labs/grite (today)
- feat(grite): add formula for v0.5.3 on neul-labs/homebrew-tap (2 days ago)
- Update README on sanand0/llmpricing (1 week ago)
- Stop launchd services before uninstall on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- Use GitHub repo verification for taps on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- feat(info): fall back to Homebrew API for casks not in stout-index on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- AgentOps-AI/tokencost - Easy token price estimates for 400+ LLMs. TokenOps. (2 days ago)
- josephburnett/jd - JSON diff and patch (3 days ago)
- homeport/dyff - /ˈdʏf/ - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON (3 days ago)
- NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer - A unified library of SOTA model optimization techniques like quantization, pruning, distillation, speculative decoding, etc. It compresses deep learning models for downstream deployment frameworks like TensorRT-LLM, TensorRT, vLLM, etc. to optimize inference speed. (6 days ago)
- QwenLM/Qwen3.6 - Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group. (6 days ago)
- neuralwatt/neuralwatt-tools - Tools and recipes for using the Neuralwatt inference API. (1 week ago)
- chopratejas/headroom - Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server. (1 week ago)
- oraios/serena - A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent (1 week ago)
- templatical/sdk - Open-source drag-and-drop email editor. JSON templates, MJML rendering, framework-agnostic. Vue + TipTap inside. (1 week ago)
- better-auth/better-auth - The most comprehensive authentication framework (1 week ago)
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