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. (2 days ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship (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)
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.2, 2 days ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.34.1, 3 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- Kuberwastaken/claurst (v0.1.1, 3 days ago) - Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.1, 6 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.4, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.2, 1 week 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, 2 weeks ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- feat(tui): implement @file injection and autocomplete on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- fix(tui): handle Shift with special characters on all terminals on Kuberwastaken/claurst (today)
- fix(dep topo): include created_ts and updated_ts in topological sort output on neul-labs/grite (2 days ago)
- Remove
/privacycommand andprivacy_screenentirely on Kuberwastaken/claurst (2 days ago) - Add more config options to
/configon Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago) - Add option to prevent cursor from blinking on Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago)
- Redesigned
/configdialog on Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago) - Remove
/privacycommand andprivacy_screenentirely on Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago) - feat(providers): OpenCode Zen, Synthetic.new, routing.run, Neuralwatt on Kuberwastaken/claurst (3 days ago)
- fix(tui): bypass-permissions dialog only shows once per session on Kuberwastaken/claurst (4 days ago)
- EionRobb/purple-teams - A MS Teams plugin for libpurple/Pidgin (3rd party client) (today)
- PaddlePaddle/PaddleX - All-in-One Development Tool based on PaddlePaddle (1 day ago)
- kreuzberg-dev/tree-sitter-language-pack - Comprehensive tree-sitter grammar compilation with polyglot bindings — Rust, Python, Node.js, Go, Java, Ruby, Elixir, PHP, C#, WASM, Dart, Kotlin-Android, Swift, Zig, and CLI. 305+ languages. (1 day ago)
- kreuzberg-dev/alef - Generate fully-typed, lint-clean language bindings for Rust libraries across 16 languages (1 day ago)
- kreuzberg-dev/liter-llm - Universal LLM API client — 142+ providers, 11 native language bindings, powered by Rust core (1 day ago)
- hystax/optscale - FinOps and cloud cost optimization tool. Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes. (2 days ago)
- rhesis-ai/rhesis - The testing platform for AI teams. Bring engineers, PMs, and domain experts together to generate tests, simulate (adversarial) conversations, and trace every failure to its root cause. (2 days ago)
- neutree-ai/neutree - Enterprise-grade Private Model-as-a-Service Platform (2 days ago)
- kyegomez/OpenMythos - A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature. (2 days ago)
- microsoft/amplifier - (2 days ago)
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