Summary
Kristina Taylor is a Senior Software Application Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise integration and data solutions, currently leading architecture and development of the University of Washington’s Enterprise Integration Platform. She brings deep expertise in Java, JavaScript, XML/XSLT/XQuery, and SQL across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL, and is fluent with cloud-native Azure deployments, Linux VMs, and Workday integrations. Comfortable across the stack, she leverages Spring, JPA, Gradle/Maven, and modern CI tooling to deliver batch and near‑real‑time data flows that power campus systems. Her background in academic research software and long tenure in higher education gives her a pragmatic approach to building maintainable, auditable systems for complex institutional workflows. Known for pairing hands-on development with system-level thinking, she also contributes infrastructure and governance experience from open-source university projects like Kuali. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she combines steady technical leadership with an ability to translate institutional needs into robust integration architectures.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Iowa State University