Jasdev Imani is a technical lead in the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, working on BirdCast, eBird, Merlin, and a variety of other Lab projects. He is a long-time birder with a diverse background including software architecture, application development, and development economics. Jasdev’s primary focus is leading the eBird technical team and supporting the complex application infrastructure underpinning the core services on which eBird, Birdcast, and other projects depend.