Derrick Hammer
I’m Derrick Hammer, a senior backend and infrastructure software engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating production web services.
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I’m Derrick Hammer, a senior backend and infrastructure software engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating production web services. I’ve worked across WordPress/PHP, Go, and TypeScript, delivering solutions that range from custom plugins and API integrations to data and performance improvements in real client environments.
More recently, I founded LumeWeb / Hammer Technologies LLC, where I lead grant-funded open-source engineering around storage and decentralized-web infrastructure. I focus on building modular systems, backend services, storage protocol integrations, authentication and workflows, and observability, along with deployment tooling and operations on Linux-based infrastructure.
- 17 years' experience
- Joined September 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
- Computers & Electronics
Work experience· 7 roles
Founder of a privacy-focused data storage and web hosting platform
Founded LumeWeb and led grant-funded open-source engineering for storage, portal, and decentralized-web infrastructure. Owned architecture and delivery across Go backend services, TypeScript/React applications, storage protocol integrations, APIs, authentication, workflows, observability, and deployment. Designed the platform around modular plugins so storage protocols and application features could be developed and deployed independently. Shipped Pinner as a production storage and static-hosting product built on the LumeWeb platform, including the web app, backend services, deployment tooling, and a developer CLI for uploads, pin management, websites, DNS, IPNS, and JSON-based automation. Maintained Linux-based application and storage infrastructure using containerized deployment and production monitoring/tooling.
Founder of a FOSS project that builds privacy and digital civil-rights technology.
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