# Linnea Dierksheide

> Accessibility @ Apple

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/linnea

Accessibility engineer at Apple. Previous experience in Operating Systems and low-level software.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States
• Work to enhance existing and develop new assistive technologies for Apple customers with disabilities

• Developed and shipped a brand-new interactive tutorial for VoiceOver, Apple's built-in screen reader, for iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia
• Also shipped a tutorial for Voice Control, Apple's flagship product for users with mobility impairments, on iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. This was a huge win for users who previously had no easy way to learn the voice commands needed to control their device.
• Created and maintain a tutorial framework in Swift for other accessibility products to implement for more tutorials, enabling the visionOS VoiceOver tutorial to be brought up with minimal additional developer effort
• Drive collaboration with Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Design teams to refine intuitive user experiences by requesting feedback and organizing test fests throughout the development cycle
• Added gradient support for the grayscale color filter across all platforms; assisted in refactoring macOS Accessibility Settings from Objective-C to SwiftUI

### Research Assistant @ The George Washington University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
•	Work with Professor Gabe Parmer on his research Operating System: Composite
•	Interface with Linux’s Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) support for hardware virtualization
•	Design and implement para-virtualized OS support to explicitly interact between Composite and hypervisor

### Teaching Assistant @ The George Washington University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
• Plan and teach weekly laboratory sessions, assist in lectures, and lead office hours, enriching educational experience of 60 Computer Science undergraduates in Computer Architecture (previously, Introduction to Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics)
• Strategize and launch new approaches, including video tutorials and online hardware simulators, to convert class to remote learning with professor and instructional team during weekly meetings

### Software Engineering Intern @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Core OS Emerging Platforms team
• Enhanced tracing technologies to improve visualization of workloads running in virtual machines and enable the identification and measurability of potential performance improvements
• Extended sysctl and hypercall interfaces to enable sending and returning data between host and guest kernels

### Software Development TechStart Intern @ Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
• Build REST API web application with Java Spring Boot backend, MongoDB database and React frontend to enhance employee engagement in workplace community
• Enable 1,600 US employees to view upcoming events, post and view photos, and participate in mentoring program
• Save US Tech leadership team 5+ hours monthly by automating the classification and review of employee experience survey results
• Communicate daily with Agile team of four developers to develop high-quality code, test, and deploy projects
• Finalist in Intern Hackathon!

### Greenhouse Grounds and Facilities Worker @ Elmhurst Park District
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Elmhurst, IL
• Collaborated with team of 7 and led a team of 3-4 workers to maintain 26 different neighborhood parks, flower beds, and natural areas 
• Communicated with supervisors to allocate daily tasks such as removing invasive species, watering, and planting


## Education
### Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science
The George Washington University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/linnea-dierksheide
- GitHub: https://github.com/ldierksheide

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Last updated: 2026-03-22