Katelynn O'brien
Lead Applications Specialist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatelynn O'brien is a Lead Applications Specialist with 11 years of experience designing and shipping production web applications for research and innovation teams, currently driving application delivery at Boston Children’s Hospital. She blends creative visual design and hands-on engineering, having led UX and UI efforts at Booz Allen’s Strategic Innovation Group, Epidemico, and BlueMetal while also founding a UI consultancy. Known for translating complex research requirements into practical, user-centered interfaces, she pairs prototyping, style guides, and close developer collaboration to accelerate feature integration. Her background in media arts and long tenure across academia, healthcare, and consulting gives her a knack for making technical tools more usable for nontechnical stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Media Arts and Design, Bachelor of Science, Media Arts and Design at Northeastern University
Github Skills (26)
infectious-diseases9
health8
webapp7
css7
science7
health-data7
rapid6
gis6
python6
geovisualization6
client-server5
svg5
visualization5
fonts5
data-science4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
beoutbreakprepared/COVID-19-data-mapping-pipeline
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:96 commits, 40 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 months
katelynnobrien/viz
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Web frontend to visualize disease data
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
reactvisualizefrontenddata-visualizationdisease
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