Eric Daams
Lead Software Engineer at Earth Miles Challenge
Darwin, Australia
Summary
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SeniorEric Daams is a Lead Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years building full‑stack web products, blending hands‑on development (React, Node.js, PHP, MySQL/Postgres) with product and customer‑facing ownership. He co-created and led development of the open‑source WPCharitable plugin and 25+ add‑ons—used by 10,000+ nonprofits and maintaining a 4.9+ WordPress rating at exit—demonstrating rare experience scaling developer work into trusted products. Now based in Darwin, Australia, he applies that product sensibility to climate tech at Climate Zero while volunteering at Earth Hero and running a solopreneur project, Earth Miles Challenge, to nudge greener commuting. A pragmatic open‑source contributor, he’s also improved major WordPress ecosystems like Easy Digital Downloads, focusing on extensibility, APIs and maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
ecommerce10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
ed2551910
apidoc9
ui-customization9
customizing9
customisation9
api9
template-tags9
stripe8
html6
vimeo6
zurb-foundation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Jun 2013 - Sep 2017
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 22 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Easy Digital Downloads plugin by implementing new features, improving existing functionality, and maintaining the codebase. Their work included adding filters, helper functions, and hooks for template customization and plugin installation. The user also modified existing code related to zip code validation and cart summaries, while also including improvements to the API. These changes indicate a focus on improving the plugin's flexibility, maintainability, and user experience.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
Charitable/library
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Charitable Code Snippet library
Contributions:355 commits, 2 PRs, 338 pushes in 7 years
vscodejavascriptvscode-extensionsnippetsnippets
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