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🦒 hi i'm derek
🧑💻 i have more than 20 years of web development experience
🐝 i graduated from georgia tech with a BS in computational media
🇺🇸 i am originally from the united states
🇺🇾 i moved to uruguay in 2025
📷 i am an award-winning amateur photographer
🚲 i have a 2016 cannondale bad boy which i love to tinker with
🎲 i like to play tabletop games with my friends
🎮 i play video games (also sometimes with my friends)
🐘 i have been working with php since forever
🐬 i've done a lot work with mysql, but i'm familiar with other
relational databases as well
☕ i enjoy writing javascript (primarily jQuery & vanilla)
🐧 even my windows installs run linux
🕸️ nginx is my web server of choice
🔰 i have been learning & enjoying vue.js
former development lead at comcast
introduced composer to the team framework
stabilised & optimised national storm reporting app
modernised many php apps
planned & executed numerous migrations
php 5.6 to 7.1 to 8.1
mysql upgrades (replicated servers)
mysql to mariadb and back
apache to nginx
bare metal servers to cloud VMs
svn to github
github enterprise to enterprise cloud
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recently i have been doing wcag accessibility auditing