Senior Developer / Drupal Hacker

Neil studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked on Hack4Dean with his classmate, Zack Rosen. Hack4Dean was renamed to DeanSpace as the project gained momentum. Neil grew up in Iowa and was able to volunteer at the Iowans for Dean office in Des Moines while on college vacations. There he worked with Aaron and Adam on the web team, which was using the DeanSpace software.

In March 2003 the DeanSpace idea got funding. Neil dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco to co-found CivicSpace. He designed various Drupal modules, unforked as much of the source code as possible, and made improvements to the Drupal platform. He decided to leave CivicSpace a year and a half later.

Neil now frequently contributes to Drupal and has extensive knowledge of its internals. He has significantly contributed to Drupal's aggregator, block administration, and has done numerous code and user interface cleanups. He develops Drupal modules and patches to Drupal for Advomatic.