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 week 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)
- neul-labs/stout - Stout is a drop-in replacement for the Homebrew CLI that's 10-100x for most operations. (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. (3 weeks ago)
- inko-lang/inko - A language for building concurrent software with confidence (3 weeks ago)
- jdx/pklr - Pure Rust pkl configuration language parser and evaluator (3 weeks ago)
- jdx/hk (v1.44.3, 2 days ago) - git hooks and project lints
- aaif-goose/goose (v1.33.1, 3 days ago) - an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
- atuinsh/atuin (v18.16.0, 4 days ago) - ✨ Making your shell magical
- hovancik/stretchly (v1.21.0, 1 week ago) - The break time reminder app
- gastownhall/beads (v1.0.3, 1 week ago) - Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN (v2.3.1, 1 week ago) - Modern Android client for Hacker News
- jhult/recalldory (v0.0.1, 2 weeks 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.
- Stop launchd services before uninstall on neul-labs/stout (2 days ago)
- Use GitHub repo verification for taps on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- feat(info): fall back to Homebrew API for casks not in stout-index on neul-labs/stout (3 days ago)
- feat(reinstall): skip re-extraction when bottle is unchanged on neul-labs/stout (1 week 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 (3 weeks ago)
- feat: add MIT license on aptdnfapt/Ai-speedometer (3 weeks ago)
- JuliusBrussee/caveman - 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman (1 day ago)
- adam-s/testing-claude-agent - Probabilistic benchmarking of .claude/ instruction sets for Claude Code token efficiency (1 day ago)
- Kuberwastaken/claurst - Your favorite Terminal Coding Agent, now in Rust (1 day ago)
- dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py - Database-Backed Durable Python Workflows (1 day ago)
- autobase-tech/autobase - Automated database platform for PostgreSQL® - Your own DBaaS. (1 day ago)
- homeport/termshot - Creates screenshots based on terminal command output (2 days ago)
- Manavarya09/cost-guardian - Real-time cost tracking and budget management for Claude Code. Zero setup. No Docker. No Grafana. Just install and go. (3 days ago)
- jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp - The leading, most token-efficient MCP server for GitHub source code exploration via tree-sitter AST parsing (3 days ago)
- AgentWorkforce/burn - The first step to burning less tokens is understanding how many you burn to begin with (3 days ago)
- CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding - Interactive architecture diagrams for codebases (3 days ago)
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