Backend engineer with 16+ 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.
Joyfully devoted disciple of Jesus striving to love others through community at The Austin Stone.
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
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- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (6 days ago)
- neocanable/garlic - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler (1 week ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (3 weeks ago)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (1 month ago)
- jsdom/jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js (1 month ago)
- piyushsingariya/split-pr - AI skill to split PRs (1 month ago)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry - aqua's Standard Registry (2 months ago)
- jdx/mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner (3 months ago)
- NurudinImsirovic/windows-cursors-modern - Windows Modern Cursors – Improved Aero for DPI and Dark Mode (3 months ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (3 months ago)
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.50.1, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/mise (v2026.9.8, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.562.0, 1 day ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- jdx/hk (v2.0.0, 2 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- tontinton/maki (v0.5.3, 5 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.0-rc.2, 5 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.22.0, 6 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gyscos/zstd-rs (v0.14.0, 1 week ago) - A rust binding for the zstd compression library.
- apache/skywalking-eyes (v0.9.0, 2 weeks ago) - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
- neocanable/garlic (v1.8-release, 4 weeks ago) - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler
- Fix flaky tests and a macOS APFS test fallout on tontinton/maki (1 day ago)
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (5 days ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (5 days ago)
- feat(instagram): reflect effective toggle state in About patch list on crimera/piko (1 week ago)
- feat: treat xapk/apks split-APK containers as APK files on neocanable/garlic (1 week ago)
- fix(todo_write): keep the todo panel updated across steps on tontinton/maki (1 week ago)
- fix(agent): guard repetitive-text loops and harden doom-loop detection on tontinton/maki (2 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on gboutte/audio-delay-mac (3 weeks ago)
- Add Apache 2.0 license on contember/typokat (1 month ago)
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (1 month ago)
- yorukot/superfile - Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager (today)
- sxyazi/yazi - 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. (today)
- OpenHFT/Open-Understanding - From shared understanding to supportable implementation (2 days ago)
- browser-use/browser-use - Agents that use the browser. (2 days ago)
- jahala/tilth - Smart(er) code reading for humans and AI agents. Reduces cost per correct answer by ~40% on average. Install: cargo install tilth -or- npx tilth (2 days ago)
- unstablebuild/rune - the development environment for pros (2 days ago)
- px0-ai/px0 - px0 is a fast, lightweight, read-only IDE designed for instant code navigation and review in your browser. Booting in under 1 ms and using ~20 MB of RAM, it turns your browser into a zero-latency inspection console with symbol-level navigation, deep search, and syntax highlighting across massive codebases. (2 days ago)
- tinyauthapp/tinyauth - The tiniest OpenID Certified™ authorization and authentication server you have ever seen. (2 days ago)
- ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash - A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with multi-user collaboration and scoped sharing. (2 days ago)
- pocket-id/pocket-id - The most user-friendly OpenID Connect Certified™ and OAuth 2.0 provider that lets users sign in to your applications with passkeys. (2 days ago)
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