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. (6 days ago)
- jhult/inko-tantivy - Tantivy FFI bindings for full-text search in Inko. (1 week 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. (1 week ago)
- jhult/inko-emailparser - A comprehensive email parsing library for Inko, implementing RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format) and RFC 2045 (MIME). (1 week ago)
- jhult/ol-python-api - (2 weeks ago)
- jhult/olcs-python-api - (2 weeks 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 (3 weeks ago)
- jdx/hk - git hooks and project lints (3 weeks ago)
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.0, 1 day ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- aaif-goose/goose (v2.0.0-rc-04-27-0, 2 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- jdx/hk (v1.44.2, 3 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.21.0, 4 days ago) - The break time reminder app
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.3, 5 days ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.3.1, 6 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.
- feat(info): fall back to Homebrew API for casks not in stout-index on neul-labs/stout (today)
- feat(reinstall): skip re-extraction when bottle is unchanged on neul-labs/stout (6 days ago)
- Add @@HOMEBREW_JAVA@@ placeholder support on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat: add reverse dependency (dependents) support across info, uses, uninstall, and why on neul-labs/stout (1 week ago)
- feat(doctor): add code signature and dylib dependency checks on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks ago)
- feat(upgrade): add cask upgrade detection and revision handling on neul-labs/stout (2 weeks 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 (3 weeks ago)
- kdl-org/kdl - the kdl document language specifications (today)
- kdl-org/kdl-rs - Rust parser for KDL (today)
- kdl-org/kdl4j - KDL Parser for the JVM (today)
- ferronweb/ferron - A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust. (today)
- jdx/usage - A specification for CLIs (today)
- jdx/fnox - encrypted/remote secret manager (today)
- endevco/pitchfork - Daemons with DX (today)
- endevco/aube - A fast Node.js package manager (today)
- warpdotdev/warp - Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. (today)
- mcowger/plexus - Unified API gateway for multiple AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.). Switch models and providers without changing client code. Features OAuth authentication, quota tracking, embeddings, transcriptions, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints. (today)
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