John VanDyk comes to Lullabot from Iowa State University, where he led Drupal development projects as a systems analyst and adjunct assistant professor.

Before encountering Drupal, John was a developer in the Userland Frontier® community and worked with object databases. John was intrigued by the world-wide web at its inception and has been building websites with better and better tools ever since. And his fascination with finding bugs led to a M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology. He has experience in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and photographer.

In the Drupal community, John is best known for writing the actions and trigger system and the workflow module. He gets excited about performance and scalability. With Dries Buytaert, he organized the first Drupal conference and was also part of the initial design team for the Content Construction Kit. John teamed with Matt Westgate to write the first edition of the bestselling book Pro Drupal Development and is putting the final polish on a second edition.

When he's not hacking on Drupal, John can be found dabbling with insect macrophotography in field or forest. He lives in Ames, Iowa with wife Tina and a gaggle of children.