Summary
Joshua Christ is a web developer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining data-heavy LAMP-stack applications for Michigan State University's Matrix Research Center. He leads development on major projects, currently supporting the Linked Open Data initiative Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, and balances backend mastery with system administration and deployment automation. Joshua has designed custom PHP frameworks, created a Unix server installer for full product deployments, and built statically generated sites optimized for speed and longevity. He also mentors and trains student engineers through curated curricula, wikis, code reviews, and hands-on supervision, ensuring long-term maintainability of digital humanities products. Based in East Lansing, he combines scholarly data sensitivity with practical engineering to turn complex cultural datasets into robust, auditable web services.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University