We welcome engineer Alireza J to Development Seed. Alireza will be helping us to build smarter and faster. He will help us to build more usable and useful APIs, develop robust open source tools for data processing, and improve our approach to infrastructure. Alireza will be making it easier for data to play with other data.

Alireza has a background in mining engineering and journalism. His most recent work is in international development, opening data and advancing transparency in some of the most repressive environments. Alireza is a tenacious problem solver and a smart storyteller.

We are delighted to have Alireza on the team. Follow Alireza on Twitter at @scisco7.