Jeanette O'brien
Senior Software Engineer at Her Code Collective
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJeanette O'brien is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building scalable, accessible web applications using Python/Django and JavaScript/React. She combines hands-on engineering at companies like Six Feet Up, honeycomb.io, and Red Hat with experience leading UX-driven projects and accessibility work that have boosted user engagement. As Co-Chair of DjangoCon US 2025 and an active contributor to open-source Django projects (including Djangonaut Space), she helps grow and support the global Django community. Jeanette also mentors early-career engineers through initiatives like DjangoGirls and founded Her Code Collective to connect and empower women and female-identifying technologists. Her background in graphic design informs a strong product sensibility—she often leads stakeholder discovery and high-fidelity prototyping to align UX with engineering. Based in North Carolina, she blends developer advocacy, teaching experience, and enterprise delivery to ship practical, maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Ivy Tech Community College-BloomingtonGraphic Design, Graphic Design at Indiana University BloomingtonComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Momentum
Japanese
Github Skills (20)
ansible-tower10
visualization9
automation9
data-analytics8
xlsform7
odk7
google-sheet7
distributions6
django6
google-sheets5
python5
reduction4
css4
mdm4
react4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jeanetteobr/killua-ui
Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 44 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
momentum-cohort-2018-07/quiz-show-if-condition
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
quiz-show-if-condition created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:34 PRs, 37 pushes, 21 branches in 5 days
conditioncssjavascriptgithub-classroom
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