Joshua Christ
Web Developer at Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua 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
Github Skills (57)
lolcode10
specification9
mer8
bioinformatics7
minhash7
count-min-sketch7
graph-traversal7
stable7
sequence6
data-wrangling6
ssa6
atom-editor6
database5
shell5
filtering5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jaredc-s/structure_and_landscapes
Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:265 commits in 8 months
nahumj/lolcode-spec
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
LOLCODE language specification archives and development.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 6 months
specificationlolcodespecification-language
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