Development Seed

Jeff is a senior developer at Development Seed and a Drupal expert, with more than four years of Drupal programming experience and having built innumerable websites on the platform. He's the creator or co-creator of several modules that have significantly streamlined site development and deployment in Drupal, including the Features, Spaces, and Context modules. He also maintains other popular modules like Casetracker and Persistent URL, and dorkier ones like Strongarm.

Jeff is also one of the creators and lead developers of Open Atrium, an open source intranet framework built on Drupal that's customizable and has a growing community of developers. Along with Young, Jeff's maintains and improves Open Atrium's core and leads the development of new features.

Additionally, Jeff is an active member of the local and international Drupal communities, playing a key role in the monthly Washington, DC Drupal meetup and presenting at every DrupalCon since Sunnyvale.

Drupal isn't the only framework Jeff works with. He has a wide range of experience using different software applications and development approaches, and this diversity is a large part of what makes him a solid leader in the Drupal community and an excellent technical lead on our projects. Prior to joining Development Seed in 2005, Jeff worked as a programmer and technology manager at a large labor organization and received his bachelor's degree in philosophy at American University here in Washington, DC.