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. (1 day ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (2 days 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. (2 days ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (3 days ago)
- jhult/ol-python-api - (1 week ago)
- jhult/olcs-python-api - (1 week ago)
- inko-lang/website - The Inko Programming Language website. (2 weeks ago)
- inko-lang/inko - A language for building concurrent software with confidence (2 weeks ago)
- jdx/pklr - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator (2 weeks ago)
- jdx/hk - git hooks and project lints (2 weeks ago)
- jdx/hk (v1.44.0, 1 day ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.32.0, 1 day ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.3.1, 1 day ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.15.2, 1 week ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.1, 1 week ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.2, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- objective-see/LuLu (v4.3.1, 1 month ago) - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
- jhult/inko-tantivy (v0.2.0, 1 month ago) - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko.
- Wybxc/mdbook-pagecrypt (v0.2.0, 1 month ago) - Encrypt your mdbook-built site with password protection.
- neul-labs/stout (v0.2.0, 1 month ago) - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations.
- feat(reinstall): skip re-extraction when bottle is unchanged on neul-labs/stout (1 day ago)
- Add @@HOMEBREW_JAVA@@ placeholder support on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- feat: add reverse dependency (dependents) support across info, uses, uninstall, and why on neul-labs/stout (5 days ago)
- feat(doctor): add code signature and dylib dependency checks on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat(upgrade): add cask upgrade detection and revision handling on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- Fix Zig linker compatibility for cross-compilation on inko-lang/inko (2 weeks ago)
- feat: add MIT license on aptdnfapt/Ai-speedometer (2 weeks ago)
- feat: add packages inko-tantivy and inko-emailparser on inko-lang/website (2 weeks ago)
- fix(deps): update rust crate pklr to 0.4.1 on jdx/hk (2 weeks ago)
- fix: resolve nullable outer property access and semicolons on jdx/pklr (2 weeks ago)
- russellromney/honker - SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler (today)
- Infisical/agent-vault - A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents (1 day ago)
- Ataraxy-Labs/opensessions - persistent sidebar pane within tmux as a showing AI agent status across all sessions (1 day ago)
- Skelf-Research/zviz - Container isolation for code you can't trust but have to run. (1 day ago)
- run-llama/llama_index - LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform (1 day ago)
- MinishLab/model2vec - Fast State-of-the-Art Static Embeddings (1 day ago)
- TM9657/flow-like - Flow-Like: Strongly Typed Enterprise Scale Workflows. Built for scalability, speed, seamless AI integration and rich customization. (1 day ago)
- Xen0Xys/Flowy - Flowy is a self-hosted finance platform built for people who are tired of juggling spreadsheets, disconnected banking apps, and shared Google Sheets that nobody agrees on. (1 day ago)
- immich-power-tools/immich-power-tools - Power tools for organizing your immich library (1 day ago)
- chevereto/chevereto - The mature, battle-tested, high-end, OG self-hosted image and video hosting solution trusted since 2007. Build your own Flickr or Imgur-style media sharing platform with complete control over your content, data, and platform rules. (1 day ago)
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