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David Huyck ’98

Karate Instructor
Senior Web Application Developer, Information Technology Services

I joined the Web Development team at Carleton in 2016 after returning to Carleton through a position at the Science Education Resource Center. I have built websites for large and small businesses, and public and private institutions, and with over seven years of university-level teaching experience, I bring a wide variety of experiences back to Carleton.

In 2023, the web team finished migrating all of Carleton’s websites from the Reason CMS to WordPress. The project started in 2018 with the award-winning Admissions website. In my role, I have worked from all the way in the back-end, integrating data sources from various campus systems, to the front-end display code, and wiring it all together in between. We use an alphabet soup of technologies, including PHP, JavaScript, CSS (and Less, SASS, and PCSS), WebPack, Twig, Docker, Composer, Kubernetes, Node.js, GraphQL, and a variety of database servers and flavors, including MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle. I enjoy helping the Carleton community solve their website needs.

Ueshiro Carleton Karate DojoIn the fall of 2024, I returned to the classroom to teach the Karate PE class. I started training Ueshiro Shorin-Ryu Karate under Sensei Bob Dobrow (Professor Emeritus in Math and Statistics) in 2016, earned my Sho-Dan (first-degree black belt) in 2023 under Sensei Steve Hatle, and I advanced to Ni-Dan (second-degree) in 2025. I am excited to continue my training with the Carleton community.

Education History

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MFA
Carleton College, BA


At Carleton since 2015.

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