- 🦒 hi i'm derek
- 🧑💻 i have more than 20 years of web development experience
- 🐝 i graduated from georgia tech with a BS in computational media
- 🇺🇸 i am originally from the united states
- 🇺🇾 i moved to uruguay in 2025
- 📷 i am an award-winning amateur photographer
- 🚲 i have a 2016 cannondale bad boy which i love to tinker with
- 🎲 i like to play tabletop games with my friends
- 🎮 i play video games (also sometimes with my friends)
- 🐘 i have been working with php since forever
- 🐬 i've done a lot work with mysql, but i'm familiar with other relational databases as well
- ☕ i enjoy writing javascript (primarily jQuery & vanilla)
- 🐧 even my windows installs run linux
- 🕸️ nginx is my web server of choice
recently i have been doing wcag accessibility auditing- 🔰 i have been learning & enjoying vue.js
- former development lead at comcast
- introduced composer to the team framework
- stabilised & optimised national storm reporting app
- modernised many php apps
- planned & executed numerous migrations
- php 5.6 to 7.1 to 8.1
- mysql upgrades (replicated servers)
- mysql to mariadb and back
- apache to nginx
- bare metal servers to cloud VMs
- svn to github
- github enterprise to enterprise cloud