Carl Johnson is the Technology Director for Spotlight PA. Prior to joining the Spotlight PA team, Carl worked as a Newsroom Product Engineer at The Baltimore Sun for Tribune Publishing, a Tech Lead for PBS, a web developer for The Atlantic, and the webmaster for his high school underground lit mag. Carl has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii and is interested in looking at online publishing and full stack development from a critical perspective. Before becoming a software engineer, he worked as an educator for 9 years, and he now teaches interactive design for journalists at the University of Maryland. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and children.