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title: "John Albin Wilkins"
url: "/about/john-albin-wilkins"
type: bio
date: 2015-06-23
updated: 2023-06-13
---

# John Albin Wilkins

#  John Albin Wilkins 

 Former Senior Front-end Developer

 Taipei TW

John Albin Wilkins has been a web developer since the Paleolithic Era. In early 1993, he was introduced to NCSA Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, and spent a few hours browsing the entire web (which only consisted of NCSA’s and CERN’s websites). He was unimpressed. Nonetheless, he had nothing better to do and started building websites.

In 2005 [In 2004](http://drupal.org/user/11297), John finally learned how idiotic it is to build your own web application framework and discovered the power of Drupal; he never looked back. He is the lead for the [Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative](http://groups.drupal.org/mobile/drupal-8), one of the top 30 Drupal contributors to Drupal 7 and is listed a few times in Drupal’s MAINTAINERS.txt. He maintains several well-used contrib projects, including the [Zen theme](http://drupal.org/project/zen), [Menu Block](http://drupal.org/project/menu_block), [Menu Position](http://drupal.org/project/menu_position), and [Fences](http://drupal.org/project/fences). He is also the co-author of [Drupal 7 Module Development](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1849511160?tag=albinnet-20) and author of the upcoming O’Reilly book, *Sass and Compass*.

John currently lives with his wife and kids on the island of Taiwan, where they occasionally play with Lemurs.