Welby O'brien
Founder & CEO, LOVE OUR VETS - PTSD Family Support, LLC at Self-employed
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWelby O'brien is a founder-CEO and counselor turned technologist who has spent a decade bridging cloud engineering with veteran-focused nonprofit leadership. Based in Portland, she leads Love Our Vets - PTSD Family Support, transforming personal experiences with divorce, grief, and PTSD into practical programs and resources for veterans and their families. Technically proficient in AWS and Azure, she contributes to serverless Python projects such as improving binary support in the widely used Zappa framework, demonstrating hands-on back-end and DevOps expertise. Her counseling degrees (BS/MS) inform a rare combination of empathetic program design and pragmatic systems thinking. Comfortable operating between code, cloud infrastructure, and community advocacy, she brings entrepreneurial grit and therapeutic insight to both technical and human-centered challenges.
10 years of coding experience
BS and MS Counseling, Education/ Counseling, BS and MS Counseling, Education/ Counseling at Biola University, Portland State University
Github Skills (8)
aws-lambda10
serverless10
aws10
api-gateway10
python10
serverless-framework10
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Miserlou/Zappa
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Serverless Python
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 35 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Welby primarily contributed to adding and refining binary support functionality within the Zappa framework. Their work involved modifying both the command-line interface (CLI) and core Zappa logic to enable binary support for API Gateway. They also made updates to the handler to handle base64 encoding. The user demonstrated a focus on API Gateway configuration and AWS Lambda integration.
api-gatewaypythonpyramidserverless-applicationsdjango
wobeng/py-utils
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:204 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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