Development Seed

Ian co-founded Development Seed in 2003 and has been involved in everything from business and project management to module development and system administration. Today, Ian provides vital support to us and our partner organizations on development projects, technical documentation, and systems configuration.

Ian has been interested in web programming for much of his life and can truthfully say he made his first hack in BASIC on one of the very first computers from Apple. He began seriously developing on the web in the late 1990’s and has dozens of projects under his belt. For the last six years, Ian has been developing almost exclusively in Drupal.

As an undergraduate and graduate student at American University, Ian studied international relations and international development. His research included looking at the impact that development and environmental projects were having on communities in India and nonprofits’ use of technology in the mountains of Peru. While in Peru, he began working with local organizations to implement open source solutions to address their communications problems.

Ian lives in Ayacucho, Peru.