Derek Hammer
Engineer at Discord
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Hammer is a Web Developer with 15 years of professional experience who transitioned from captaining fishing vessels in Alaska to building web applications in Seattle. Since 2019 he has been developing at MyPeopleNow while studying JavaScript, C#, and React through Epicodus. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UI behavior, added tests, and refined the build process for the Cappuccino JavaScript framework and has migrated his repos to GitLab. His background managing crews and high‑stress operations translates into pragmatic problem-solving, operational discipline, and reliable team leadership in engineering contexts. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs hands-on front-end debugging with a steady, outcomes-focused approach.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
43reputation
8kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
javascript10
ui-d10
objcective-c10
ui-design10
appkit10
objectivec10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
obj10
frontend-development10
web-frameworks9
web-framework9
testing8
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cappuccino/cappuccino
Jan 2010 - Sep 2011
Web Application Framework in JavaScript and Objective-J
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the UI and functionality of the Cappuccino framework. Their work included fixing bugs related to view behavior and selection logic within `CPTableView`, as well as enhancing the visual presentation of the application by modifying `CPOutlineView` and `CPLevelIndicator` components. Furthermore, the user integrated testing by adding specific test cases for the `CPTabView` component, ensuring the correct behavior of tabs and views. In addition, they updated the build process and added build flags.
javascriptweb-applicationframeworkweb-application-frameworkapplication-framework
pmcfadden/basic_mud
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:55 PRs, 57 pushes, 54 branches in 3 years 7 months
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