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 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 (1 week ago)
- atuinsh/atuin - ✨ Magical shell history (2 weeks ago)
- Homebrew/homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (2 weeks ago)
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN - Modern Android client for Hacker News (3 weeks ago)
- hovancik/stretchly - The break time reminder app (4 weeks 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)
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.2.5, 3 weeks ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.19.0, 1 month ago) - The break time reminder app
- 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
- Fix memory leaks (#616) on objective-see/LuLu (1 week ago)
- atuin: add head build on Homebrew/homebrew-core (2 weeks ago)
- fix: prevent interactive search crash when update check fails on atuinsh/atuin (2 weeks ago)
- [core] fix memory leak in Hunspell dictionary loading on languagetool-org/languagetool (2 weeks ago)
- Limit submission title to 80 characters on SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (3 weeks ago)
- fix: break windows not closing correctly on all platforms on hovancik/stretchly (3 weeks ago)
- Add MIT license on pbkn/dlq-auto-redrive-by-cloudwatch (1 month ago)
- chore(docs): fix Go install command on Finatext/gha-fix (2 months ago)
- Enable CredentialManager APIs for all apps supporting passkeys on uazo/cromite (3 months ago)
- Add MIT license on Typogram/coding-font-sveltekit (5 months ago)
- hagezi/dns-servers - HaGeZi DNS: Free, Non-Commercial EU Public DNS Servers (1 day ago)
- dejay2/glmproxy - GLM Proxy - LLM API proxy server (5 days ago)
- grdl/git-get - A better way to clone, organize and manage multiple git repositories (6 days ago)
- Jman-Github/ReVanced-Patch-Bundles - Automatically aggregates alternative ReVanced patch and integration repositories into JSON files to import into the ReVanced Manager Compose. (1 week ago)
- swiftDialog/swiftDialog - Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog (1 week ago)
- steveyegge/beads - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent (1 week ago)
- temporalio/sdk-core - Core Temporal SDK that can be used as a base for language specific Temporal SDKs (1 week ago)
- temporalio/awesome-temporal - A curated list of awesome Temporal libraries and resources. (1 week ago)
- temporalio/sdk-java - Temporal Java SDK (1 week ago)
- spinnaker/spinnaker - Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. (1 week ago)
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