She specializes in microservices architectures built using Java. As a part of the Liberty team Katherine has created samples to demonstrate industry best practices for microservices and worked on the open source microservice project GameOn. She has also given workshops and presentations about microservices at various European conferences, including DevoxxUK and OSCON in London and JFokus last year. Katherine has been at IBM since 2014 and is based in the Hursley UK lab.