Derrick Hammer - CTO at Codeable

Derrick Hammer

CTO at Codeable

Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States

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Derrick Hammer is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web backends, servers, and deployment tooling. As CTO of Hammer Technologies LLC since 2019 and founder of lumeweb.com, he combines strategic leadership with deep engineering across Web2 and Web3, with a sustained effort to make Web3 accessible and responsibly reframe its public image. He has delivered across the stack—from WordPress plugin back-ends (Pods Framework) to hosting and server tooling (Webmin) and hosting control panels (VESTA)—driving improvements to domain configuration, REST interfaces, and UI experiences. An active open-source contributor, his work spans backend architecture and UI refinement in WordPress ecosystems and infrastructure tooling. Based in Jacksonville, North Carolina, he pairs entrepreneurial drive (former CEO of Simply Digital Hosting and ongoing freelance work at Codeable) with hands-on software craftsmanship. He holds an associate degree in Web Technologies from Davidson County Community College.

14 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Associate's degree, Web Technologies, Associate's degree, Web Technologies at Davidson County Community College

High School, High School at East Davidson High

English

Github Skills (32)

servers10

content-types10

webconfig10

wordpress10

linux10

bash10

perl10

php10

custom-fields10

control-panel10

webmin10

content-type10

web-server10

system-administration10

webserver10

Programming languages (27)

CGoHTMLJupyter NotebookTypeScriptShellSolidityAstro

Github contributions (5)

outroll/vesta

Jul 2016 - Oct 2016

VESTA Control Panel

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:46 commits, 22 PRs, 44 comments in 3 months

Contributions summary:Derrick's contributions primarily focus on modifying the Vesta Control Panel's backend functionality. They implemented changes to the domain configuration, including deleting configurations if a domain is not in the user's web.conf. The user also refactored the installation scripts to use a global VESTA variable and updated cron job configurations. Furthermore, the user added support for LetsEncrypt functionality and integrated the related UI elements.

panelvestacontrol-panel

pods-framework/pods

Dec 2015 - Jan 2020

The Pods Framework is a Content Development Framework for WordPress - It lets you create and extend content types that can be used for any project. Add fields of various types we've built in, or add your own with custom inputs, you have total control.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:24 commits, 29 PRs, 60 comments in 4 years 2 months

Contributions summary:Derrick primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Pods Framework, focusing on enhancing content type management. They added new labels for various featured image functionalities and other item-related configurations within the WordPress plugin. Furthermore, the user fixed an issue, making a REST handler static and addressed other bugs related to display and duplication.

custom-fieldstotalpjaxcontent-typeswordpress

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