Kathleen Burkhardt

Kathleen Burkhardt, CPACC, is a UX engineer specializing in accessibility at BlackRock since February 2019, holding the title of Associate, Engineer III. Prior experience at BlackRock includes roles as Associate, Engineer II and Analyst, Engineer I, where Kathleen focused on remediating accessibility bugs within design systems built with Angular, React, and Stencil, and gained diverse technical skills through the Graduate Analyst program. Kathleen has previous experience as Coordinator and Mentor at the Rensselaer Center for Open Source, contributing to project organization and student guidance. Additional internships include positions at BlackRock's Aladdin Product Group, where software was developed using AngularJS and Java, and at Optum, where a digital onboarding assistant was created. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a CORe Credential of Readiness from Harvard Business School Online.