Development Seed

Tom is a GIS developer at Development Seed. He has been a lead architect of our open source mapping stack that combines Mapnik with Drupal, and works closely with Robert and AJ on the development of MapBox, our suite of open source tools that make beautiful custom maps and host them in the cloud.

Tom’s work has led him deep into cloud hosting and computing research, where he is pioneering ways to leverage cloud services to support international development work. Projects he spearheads include TileMill and SlingshotSMS. He regularly talks about this work at events including the International Conference on Crisis Mapping, GOSCON, and the upcoming Where 2.0 conference.

In addition to mapping and SMS, Tom is an experienced open source developer with significant experience working in Drupal, Django, and Ruby. At Development Seed, he has helped build large, complex websites and communications tools for organizations like the New America Foundation and Human Rights Watch.

Tom received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.