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 (1 day ago)
- jhult/recalldory - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko. (2 days 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 - (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)
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.34.0, 2 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.1.0, 2 days ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.1, 3 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.4, 6 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.2, 6 days 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, 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
- Add option to prevent cursor from blinking on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- Redesigned
/configdialog on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today) - Remove
/privacycommand andprivacy_screenentirely on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today) - feat(providers): OpenCode Zen, Synthetic.new, routing.run, Neuralwatt on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- fix(tui): bypass-permissions dialog only shows once per session on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(minimax): use correct Authorization header format for API auth on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(tui): enable Cmd+V/Ctrl+V paste support on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(tui): show bypass-permissions dialog instead of onboarding when using --yolo on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- fix(cleanup): handle package and cask names with hyphens on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- Enable Cmd+C / Cmd+V on macOS; enable kitty keyboard protocol on Kuberwastaken/claurst (1 day ago)
- vava-nessa/free-coding-models - Find, benchmark and install in CLI 170+ FREE coding LLM models across 15+ providers in real time (1 day ago)
- zubyj/leetcode-explained - Browser extension that adds video solutions, company tags, and GPT code analysis into Leetcode problems (1 day ago)
- mnfst/manifest - Smart Model Routing for Agents. Cut Costs up to 70% 🦚 (1 day ago)
- mksglu/context-mode - Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output, 98% reduction. 15 platforms (1 day ago)
- AgentOps-AI/tokencost - Easy token price estimates for 400+ LLMs. TokenOps. (3 days ago)
- josephburnett/jd - JSON diff and patch (4 days ago)
- homeport/dyff - /ˈdʏf/ - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON (4 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. (1 week ago)
- QwenLM/Qwen3.6 - Qwen3.6 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Group. (1 week ago)
- neuralwatt/neuralwatt-tools - Tools and recipes for using the Neuralwatt inference API. (1 week ago)
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