Phil Derksen
AI & Automation Consultant
Clovis, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Derksen is an AI & Automation Consultant with 30+ years of software development experience and 13 years of focused professional experience, helping small businesses get more leads, customers, and revenue through practical AI solutions rather than flashy tech. He combines hands-on implementation—building AI-powered lead generation, chatbots, marketing automation, content pipelines, and CRM workflows—with experience founding and selling WordPress plugins like WP Simple Pay and contributing backend fixes to popular open-source projects such as Easy Digital Downloads. Comfortable bridging product, engineering, and operations, Phil has run profitable software businesses and managed end-to-end product lifecycles, so he designs solutions that are both technically sound and commercially effective. Based in Clovis, CA, he emphasizes training and hands-on collaboration so clients can use AI confidently without ballooning headcount or complexity.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Accounting, Bachelor of Arts Accounting at Fresno Pacific University
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Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
wordpress-plugin10
ecommerce10
ed2551910
css9
html8
mysql8
git7
crud6
ajax6
asp-net-mvc6
jquery6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Mar 2013 - Nov 2016
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 25 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) plugin, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to the checkout process and settings. Their work included improvements to the user interface (UI), particularly the discount code and payment method sections, and addressed issues in the admin settings area. They also implemented a helper function for obtaining download names and made adjustments to the payment processing workflow.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
Xtendify/Simple-Calendar-ACF
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
Add a Simple Calendar field to Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
custom-fieldscalendaradvanced-custom-fieldsfieldfields
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