Jesse O'brien
Staff Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse O'brien is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and enterprises, now leading developer productivity initiatives at ZipRecruiter. A true polyglot, he has shipped production services in Go, PHP, C#, Ruby on Rails and modern TypeScript/React stacks, and contributed fixes and features to the core Laravel repo. He combines hands-on engineering—docker, k8s, gRPC/HTTP APIs and OpenAPI docs—with product-minded leadership, mentoring teams and migrating legacy systems to maintainable architectures. Jesse favors Unix philosophy, composition over inheritance, test-driven design, and pragmatic UX-informed engineering learned in part from a UX professional partner. He has a strong consulting background turning client requirements into shipping products for companies like WeWork, SkipTheDishes and Just Eat, and maintains practical open-source work such as a popular Laravel cheatsheet. Outside of work he tinkers with 3D printing, archery and building command-line tools that improve developer workflows.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityComputer Programmer Analyst, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Programmer Analyst, Computer Software Engineering at Fanshawe College
English
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
application-framework10
url-routing10
web-framework10
app-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
profiling9
forms9
eloquent9
javascript8
api-design8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
JesseObrien/laravel-cheatsheet
Aug 2013 - Jun 2015
Laravel Cheat Sheet
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 18 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the development of a Laravel-based cheat sheet, adding new content related to various Laravel features, including routing, input handling, sessions, and responses. They implemented updates to the user interface by including anchors and a three-column layout while also refactoring elements and adding links to documentation. The user also added new features, such as blade templates, form and html builders, events, and database interactions.
laravelphpcheat-sheetsheet
laravel/laravel
Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the Laravel framework, focusing on core functionality enhancements. Their commits addressed issues with the `Request::ip()` method in CLI environments, updated the Eloquent model's `update` function for timestamp handling, and implemented a profiling tool for performance tracking. The user also added features such as JSONP responses and route registration enhancements, expanding the framework's capabilities.
phpweb-applicationframeworkexpressiveweb-application-framework
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