Tom MacWright

Tom is an engineer at Development Seed, an online communications strategy shop that specializes in building open source tools for international development agencies. His focus is on creating open source mapping tools, and he has been the lead developer in creating our open source mapping stack that combines Mapnik with Drupal to create beautiful, custom maps. Recently, he collaborated with Amazon Web Services to get 140 gbs of TIGER U.S. Census data hosted in the cloud, making the public data more accessible and easier to work with.

In addition to mapping, Tom is also an experience open source developer, spending most of his time programming in Drupal. At Development Seed, he helps build large, complex websites and communications tools for organizations like Human Rights Watch.

Tom received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Religious Studies from The College of William and Mary. In his free time Tom can be found playing the ukulele and banjo with his band.