Andre O'brien
Software Engineer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAndre O'Brien is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience modernising microservices and building production web apps using .NET, AWS, React, Python/Django and DevOps practices. He excels at tackling roadmap "hard" problems by researching, prototyping and shipping proof-of-concepts that reveal practical, sometimes overlooked solutions. His background spans agency work—where he created a reusable CSS framework and backend boilerplate that halved delivery time—to product teams modernising large-scale systems at Xero. Comfortable as both a solo implementer and a collaborative engineer, he pairs front-end polish with backend reliability and cloud-native operations. Based in Wellington, he keeps learning actively (recent AWS and Rapid Software Testing coursework) and writes about the trade-offs of AI in engineering contexts.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Web Development and Design, Diploma in Web Development and Design at Vision College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
react-carousel10
flexbox-grid10
css10
typescript10
slick10
flexbox10
html10
react10
antd9
ui-design9
htmx9
rest9
hateoas9
hyperscript8
sass8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andreobriennz/andreobrien-5
Apr 2018 - Jan 2026
Front-end source code for my portfolio. Built with Vue and Express/Node (back-end is in a seperate repo)
Contributions:8 PRs, 65 pushes, 14 branches in 7 years 11 months
node-expressjavascriptexpressvuenodejs
andreobriennz/include-html
Jul 2018 - Apr 2023
Quick and simple prototyping for small websites
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 years 9 months
cssjavascriptprototypingweb-development
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