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)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (3 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. (3 days ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (4 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)
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.3, 1 day ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.0-beta.1, 1 day ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- jdx/hk (v1.44.1, 1 day ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.32.0, 2 days 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, 2 days ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.1, 1 week ago) - A persistent memory system for AI coding assistants, written in Inko.
- 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 (2 days ago)
- Add @@HOMEBREW_JAVA@@ placeholder support on neul-labs/stout (4 days ago)
- feat: add reverse dependency (dependents) support across info, uses, uninstall, and why on neul-labs/stout (6 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)
- gofrs/flock - Thread-safe file locking library in Go (1 day ago)
- sony/gobreaker - Circuit Breaker implemented in Go (1 day ago)
- stretchr/testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library (1 day ago)
- oracle/macaron - Macaron is an extensible supply-chain security analysis framework from Oracle Labs that supports a wide range of build systems and CI/CD services. It can be used to prevent supply chain attacks, detect malicious Python packages, or check conformance to frameworks, such as SLSA. Documentation: (1 day ago)
- oracle/python-oracledb - Python driver for Oracle Database conforming to the Python DB API 2.0 specification with many advanced features. Fast, small, portable. Enterprise ready. (1 day ago)
- oracle/odpi - ODPI-C: Oracle Database Programming Interface for Drivers and Applications (1 day ago)
- openrundev/openrun - Internal tools deployment made easy. Deploy web apps declaratively, on a single-node or on Kubernetes. (1 day ago)
- russellromney/honker - SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler (1 day ago)
- Infisical/agent-vault - A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents (2 days ago)
- Ataraxy-Labs/opensessions - tmux sidebar for coding agents — Amp, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode. Per-thread markers, local HTTP API, live session state. (2 days ago)
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