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.
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- 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)
- tontinton/maki - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins (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)
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.560.0, 1 day ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- jdx/mise (v2026.9.5, 2 days ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- tontinton/maki (v0.5.3, 2 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.0-rc.2, 2 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.22.0, 3 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.50.0, 4 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/hk (v1.58.1, 1 week ago) - git hooks and project lints
- gyscos/zstd-rs (v0.14.0, 1 week ago) - A rust binding for the zstd compression library.
- apache/skywalking-eyes (v0.9.0, 1 week ago) - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
- neocanable/garlic (v1.8-release, 3 weeks ago) - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler
- feat: configurable per-provider top_p sampling on tontinton/maki (2 days ago)
- feat(providers): configurable retry limit for provider errors on tontinton/maki (2 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 (1 week ago)
- Add MIT license on gboutte/audio-delay-mac (3 weeks ago)
- Add Apache 2.0 license on contember/typokat (4 weeks ago)
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (1 month ago)
- release: 0.3.0 on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- worawit/blutter - Flutter Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Tool (2 days ago)
- liketrek/TREK - A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more. (2 days ago)
- mitchellh/vouch - A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. (4 days ago)
- azriel91/disposition - SVG diagram generator (4 days ago)
- miaskiewicz/turbo-dom - faster + more accurate DOM library with native parser written in Rust (WASM fallback) (4 days ago)
- servo/html5ever - High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser (4 days ago)
- davidgohel/officer - 👮 officer: office documents from R (5 days ago)
- dolanmiu/docx - Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser. (5 days ago)
- open-xml-templating/docxtemplater - Generate docx, pptx, and xlsx from templates (Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents), from Node.js or the browser. Demo: https://www.docxtemplater.com/demo. #docx #office #generator #templating #report #json #generate #generation #template #create #pptx #docx #xlsx #react #vuejs #angularjs #browser #typescript #image #html #table #chart (5 days ago)
- EseToni/open-linkedin-api - An open-source Python library that provides programmatic access to LinkedIn using web scraping. Inspired by the now-private linkedin-api, this project aims to offer a community-driven alternative for authentication, profile searches, messaging, and data extraction—ensuring an accessible and regularly updated LinkedIn integration. 🚀 (5 days ago)
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