Summary
Kathryn Huxtable is a senior software developer with 16 years of professional experience designing and implementing identity management and database-driven web applications. She blends hands-on Java web and EJB development with UI design and database schema expertise (Oracle, MySQL), and has a history of leading and mentoring small teams to deliver production identity solutions. Her career spans higher education and enterprise contracting, where she built a home-grown identity management system and evolved middleware into robust IAM capabilities. Comfortable across languages from modern Java to legacy C, C++, Perl and FORTRAN, Kathryn is pragmatic about refactoring and improving system efficiency. Based in Mission, Kansas, she brings a steady mix of architecture-level thinking and day-to-day coding discipline that keeps long-lived systems maintainable and secure. An underrated strength is her institutional knowledge of academic and enterprise workflows, which helps translate complex requirements into practical, auditable implementations.
17 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas