Derek Myers
Founder CEO at NamePromo
Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Myers is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years building full-stack web products and teams, currently leading NamePromo as CEO after growing it to 20,000+ users and driving over $3M in sales for partner brands. He combines hands-on engineering—ranging from PHP backend work on frameworks like Fuel to front-end UX tweaks in projects such as Swagger UI—with product instincts honed from founding multiple startups and consulting for clients migrating legacy stacks to modern Laravel/Vue.js architectures. As an engineering manager at GRIN he scaled feature delivery across two pods and implemented automation to enforce coding standards and developer productivity. Derek’s background spans infrastructure, APIs, payment/tokenization, and large-scale email deliverability, showing an ability to ship both user-facing experiences and reliable backend systems. Based in Oklahoma, he’s pragmatic about solving problems rather than just writing code, and quietly contributes to open-source projects that improve documentation, modularity, and developer UX.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development and Programming, Software Development and Programming at Francis Tuttle Technology CenterGeneral Studies, General Studies at Oklahoma City Community CollegeBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems, General at University of Oklahoma - Price College of BusinessGeneral Studies, General Studies at University of Central Oklahoma
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
css10
fuelphp10
php10
swagger-ui10
f10
front-end-development10
html10
fuel10
imageio9
image9
validations9
validation9
api-documentation9
imagehandler9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jensoleg/swagger-ui
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek focused on improving the user interface of the Swagger UI. Their commits include modifications to CSS and HTML files, changing how elements such as the "Try" button and operation paths are displayed. They also addressed issues with the display of authorization headers during file uploads and enhanced the presentation of schema information within the documentation.
apicssjavascriptcomplianthtml-javascript
fuel/core
Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
Fuel PHP Framework - The core of the Fuel v1 framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on improving the Fuel PHP framework's core functionality and documentation. They fixed docblock typos, updated `@usage` examples, and implemented changes to enhance the framework's modularity. The contributions span across database interactions and application configuration. The user also addressed the validation and image handling.
phpframeworkfuelphpfuel-v1
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