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
- languagetool-org/languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages (2 weeks ago)
- atuinsh/atuin - ✨ Magical shell history (3 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (3 weeks ago)
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN - Modern Android client for Hacker News (1 month ago)
- hovancik/stretchly - The break time reminder app (1 month ago)
- centminmod/my-claude-code-setup - Shared starter template configuration and CLAUDE.md memory bank system for Claude Code (5 months ago)
- penwyp/ClaudePreference - A comprehensive collection of development workflow commands for Claude Code (5 months ago)
- samyakjain0606/awesome-learning-material - 🧪 Curated collection of AI development resources, automation tools, and modern development practices. Features GitHub repositories, articles, and community resources for developers and AI enthusiasts. (5 months ago)
- Veraticus/nix-config - (5 months ago)
- terryso/claude-auto-resume - A shell script utility that automatically resumes Claude CLI tasks when usage limits are lifted. (5 months ago)
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.20.0, 1 week ago) - The break time reminder app
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.5, 1 month ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.10.0, 2 months ago) - ✨ Magical shell history
- tacogips/async-graphql-reverse (v0.6.1, 1 year ago) -
- geldata/gel-java (0.3.0, 2 years ago) - The official Java client library for EdgeDB
- feat: upgrade czkawka_core to 10.0.0 on shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (2 days ago)
- feat: detect and prevent directory conflicts on shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (2 days ago)
- fix: ffmpeg PATH detection to avoid 'File name too long' error on shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri (2 days ago)
- Fix memory leaks (#616) on objective-see/LuLu (2 weeks ago)
- atuin: add head build on Homebrew/homebrew-core (3 weeks ago)
- fix: prevent interactive search crash when update check fails on atuinsh/atuin (3 weeks ago)
- [core] fix memory leak in Hunspell dictionary loading on languagetool-org/languagetool (3 weeks ago)
- Limit submission title to 80 characters on SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (1 month ago)
- fix: break windows not closing correctly on all platforms on hovancik/stretchly (1 month ago)
- Add MIT license on pbkn/dlq-auto-redrive-by-cloudwatch (1 month ago)
- thedotmack/claude-mem - A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into future sessions. (1 day ago)
- ossa-ma/double - double (dostoevsky reference) local memory system for agents (1 day ago)
- Lulzx/zpdf - Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration. (1 day ago)
- Fission-AI/OpenSpec - Spec-driven development (SDD) for AI coding assistants. (2 days ago)
- shixinhuang99/czkawka-tauri - A Tauri-based frontend for Czkawka on macOS and Windows (2 days ago)
- jbuistjbuist/form-saver - Chrome extension to save form data during a browser session. Uses Vanilla JS, CSS, HTML, and Chrome APIs. (2 days ago)
- eudoxia0/hashcards - A plain text-based spaced repetition system. (2 days ago)
- lllyasviel/Fooocus - Focus on prompting and generating (2 days ago)
- AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI (2 days ago)
- bell-sw/alpaquita-aports - Alpaquita Linux aports (3 days ago)
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