Joseph Flatt
Web Developer at Flatt and Sons
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoseph Flatt is a Full Stack Web Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP-driven sites, specializing in Drupal and Backdrop CMS. Rooted in early work fixing and networking computers in his family's service business, he brings a practical systems-first mindset to web projects—handling everything from Linux server administration and networking to custom module development and theming. Much of his recent work focuses on back-end performance optimization for PHP and MySQL on large, component-rich sites, and he has contributed to the core Backdrop repository to improve PHP compatibility and refactor database, menu, and form subsystems. Based in Las Vegas, he blends infrastructure instincts from a system-administration background with deep CMS expertise to deliver maintainable, high-performing sites. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving that spans hardware, networks, and complex web application stacks.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
backdrop10
databases10
cms10
php10
querying10
drupal-module10
database10
package-development10
theming9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 49 commits, 80 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to fixing bugs and adding support for newer versions of PHP within the Backdrop CMS codebase. Their work included addressing compatibility issues related to string handling and adding support for PHP 7.2. The user also modified core files related to database queries, menu functionality, module enabling/disabling, form handling, theming, and install processes. Additionally, the user worked on color module support and refactored core code.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
backdrop-contrib/registration
Apr 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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