I received my PhD in Religious Studies from UVa in 2004 but have been working in Digital Humanties since 2000, first as Technical Director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (THL) and currently as programmer for SHANTI @ UVA and the Contemplative Sciences Center. My initial focus at THL was in cataloging and digitizing Tibetan Buddhist texts. This work used XML, JS, and PHP technologies. Since joining SHANTI in 2012, I have been working in collaboration to develop the Mandala suite of research tools in Drupal and SOLR.