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 (3 days ago)
- jhult/cap-releases - Unofficial daily source builds of Capable Cap desktop + CLI (2 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)
- jdx/mise (v2026.9.2, 1 day ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- tontinton/maki (v0.5.2, 2 days ago) - An efficient AI coding agent extendable by neovim-like Lua plugins
- jdx/hk (v1.58.1, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- gyscos/zstd-rs (v0.14.0, 4 days ago) - A rust binding for the zstd compression library.
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.49.0, 5 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- apache/skywalking-eyes (v0.9.0, 1 week ago) - A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.
- aquaproj/aqua-registry (v4.558.1, 1 week ago) - aqua's Standard Registry
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.21.0, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- gastownhall/beads (v1.3.0-rc.1, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- neocanable/garlic (v1.8-release, 3 weeks ago) - The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler
- feat(instagram): reflect effective toggle state in About patch list on crimera/piko (3 days ago)
- feat: treat xapk/apks split-APK containers as APK files on neocanable/garlic (3 days ago)
- fix(todo_write): keep the todo panel updated across steps on tontinton/maki (3 days 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 (2 weeks ago)
- Add Apache 2.0 license on contember/typokat (3 weeks ago)
- Add LICENSE on prime-radiant-inc/sprout (4 weeks ago)
- release: 0.3.0 on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- chore(CI): upgrade and pin CI actions on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- fix(state): fix root-owned state and installed files after sudo runs on neul-labs/stout (1 month ago)
- davidgohel/officer - 👮 officer: office documents from R (1 day ago)
- dolanmiu/docx - Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser. (1 day 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 (1 day 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. 🚀 (1 day ago)
- microsoft/tgrep - Trigram-indexed grep with a client/server architecture for fast regex search in large codebases locally (1 day ago)
- google/bindiff - Quickly find differences and similarities in disassembled code (1 day ago)
- decompiler-explorer/decompiler-explorer - Decompiler Explorer! Compare tools on the forefront of static analysis, now in your web browser! (1 day ago)
- tontinton/makiconf - My maki conf (2 days ago)
- CanineHQ/canine - A developer friendly PaaS for your Kubernetes (2 days ago)
- Automattic/harper - Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered (2 days ago)
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