Phil Derksen
Senior Application Developer
Clovis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Derksen is a seasoned software developer, product manager, and startup founder with over 25 years of experience building applications that help people be more successful at work. He is currently a Senior Application Developer at Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund, developing and optimizing systems that ensure accurate residual payments for more than 50,000 musicians and manage millions of contracts and over $140 million in annual distributions. As founder and lead developer of Moonstone Media, he designs custom software for small businesses, harnessing automation and AI to streamline operations and enable scalable growth. His background spans backend and frontend development, product leadership, and remote collaboration for products like WP Simple Pay and Easy Digital Downloads, including UI enhancements to checkout flows and admin settings. With a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Fresno Pacific University, he combines business sense with technical depth to deliver practical, auditable software solutions.
13 years of coding experience
23 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 (16)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugins10
php10
javascript10
ed10
javascripts10
wordpress-plugin10
ecommerce10
css9
html8
mysql8
git7
ajax6
aspnet-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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