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.
7 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 (19)
tower10
ansible-tower10
visualization9
python8
data-analytics8
ansible8
condition8
analytics8
automation7
react5
django5
css4
exchange3
javascript3
reduction3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
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
jeanetteobr/tower-analytics-frontend
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 7 months
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