Josh Kim
Accessibility Design Lead at Northwestern Mutual
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Kim is an Accessibility Design Lead with over a decade of experience crafting accessibility strategy, design systems, and trauma-informed research that centers assistive-technology users and other underserved communities. He has led accessibility programs at VA.gov and Northwestern Mutual, authored practical playbooks and contributed to industry publications, and co-founded communities that scaled inclusive research and trauma-informed practice across teams. Josh blends hands-on testing with screen readers and automated tools, qualitative research methods, and governance work to drive measurable outcomes—like tripling internal site engagement and launching an accessibility ambassador program. He’s a CPWA-certified speaker and educator who brings a practitioner’s rigor to policy, metrics, and cross-functional change, and quietly emphasizes human-centered remediation over checkbox compliance.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BIT with Leadership Minor DSS, BIT with Leadership Minor DSS at Virginia TechExchange Program International Business, Exchange Program International Business at Yonsei University
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (31)
frontend10
npm-package9
react8
npm8
user-feedback8
assistive-technology7
web-components7
rad7
oms6
wcag6
axe6
sling6
codebase6
python6
accessibility6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cafedmv/cafedmv.github.io
May 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
joshkimux/joshkimux.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:165 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
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