Lumentity
About Us

Career technologists, on your side of the table

Lumentity was founded on a simple observation: mission-driven organizations get better technology from people who've worked inside mission-driven organizations. We've led the platforms, sat in the budget meetings, and lived the compliance constraints — and now we bring that experience to you.

Our People

Senior people, end to end

The people you meet are the ones who do the work. No handoffs to junior staff, no messages relayed through intermediaries — and when we bring in specialists, they're senior people we trust, and you meet them too.

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John Kealy

Founder & Digital Strategist

John has spent three decades building and leading digital platforms for mission-driven organizations — starting in 1996, when he managed the Sierra Club's website and online donations in the earliest days of the web.

As Website Services Manager at UCSF, he built the university's Drupal multisite platform from the ground up — growing it to 2,000+ managed sites, automating deployments from weeks to minutes, and saving the institution roughly $1M every year. At the California Health Care Foundation, John works with the communications team to develop website strategy and project-manages the ongoing work of improving the site — a foundation whose work depends on trust and accessibility.

A Drupal community member for 15+ years, John is the President of the Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp), where he organized the higher education summit for years and served as secretary of Bay Area Drupal before stepping into the president's role. He's a DrupalCon speaker and a mentor to new community members.

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Eric Davila

Founder & Lead Developer

Eric has spent 24+ years building sites and tools with core web technologies — 19+ of them solving organizational needs with content management systems, and the last decade-plus leading web and digital communications operations for complex higher ed, academic research, and public sector environments.

His practice sits where most projects go wrong: the connective tissue between user experience, platform architecture, and governance. Information architecture, content strategy, accessibility, DevOps, workflow design — the disciplines that turn a working website into a digital operation that improves continuously.

Eric is an active Drupal community member of 17+ years: a maintainer of several community modules, mentor to new contributors, and a repeat speaker at DrupalCons and DrupalCamps. His favorite pitch line is "don't hire me to build your website — hire me to build it better."

Mission & Values

What we believe

Lumentity exists because technology should serve missions — not the other way around. These are the commitments behind everything we deliver.

Real numbers, not blanket promises

We test, audit, and report actual conformance and performance figures — even when the honest number is less flattering than the marketing one. You can't build trust on "100% compliance."

Open by default

Open-source platforms and, where compliance allows, open AI stacks. Your platform, your data, your code — no licensing lock-in, no vendor hostage-taking.

Inside-out experience

We've worked inside universities, foundations, and nonprofits. We know what tight budgets, strict compliance, and stakeholders at every level actually mean — because we've operated under all three.

Supported for life

A launch is a beginning, not an exit. We design every site to be maintained — by us on a retainer, or by your team with our documentation.

Senior hands only

Every person who touches your project — us or a trusted specialist — is someone whose judgment we'd stake our own work on.

Technology with a conscience

AI, automation, and modern tooling adopted thoughtfully — measured against your mission and your compliance obligations, not the hype cycle.

Why "Lumentity"

The name layers three meanings we care about. Fiat Lux — "let there be light" — the University of California's motto, a nod to the higher ed world where our work has deep roots. Lumen, light itself: the clarity we bring to tangled digital programs. And entity — the Drupal term for a thing, a unit of content — repurposed here for the organizations we serve.

Put together: an organization that brings light. Technology that illuminates what you do — for the students, patients, donors, and communities you serve.

Working with us looks like

  • A conversation with the founders, not a sales team
  • Honest assessments — including "you don't need this"
  • Senior specialists, introduced by name
  • Documentation your next hire can actually use

Meet the people behind Lumentity

Senior people, end to end — the ones you meet are the ones who do the work.

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