Elizabeth Kukla
Class of 2012
Founder @ TechFoundry
Elizabeth Kukla holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from The University of Virginia. She started her career overseas in Düsseldorf, Germany working as a software engineer with the hotel search engine Trivago. After returning to the States, Kukla spent several years at a small digital product development company and ultimately left in 2021, at age 27, to start her own digital product development and consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia, where she now resides. In addition to the engineering work she was already acquainted with, Kukla has had to adapt to other learning curves and challenges that come with founding a company, and navigate situations she never had to think about as an employee.