West O'brien
Quality Engineering Lead at Boeing
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWest O'brien is a Quality Engineering Lead with nine years of industrial and quality engineering experience at Boeing, grounded in a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Washington. He launched his career building production system designs and then spent several years leading aircraft storage and field operations across 737 and 787 programs, gaining hands-on operational resilience and cross-site problem solving. Now based in Charleston and previously active in Seattle, he blends process-focused systems thinking with practical quality leadership to drive safer, more efficient operations. Outside of aerospace he experiments with backend Python development—contributing puzzle- and OOP-focused exercises to an educational repo—which reflects a methodical, analytical approach to tooling and automation. Passionate about transportation safety, macroeconomics, and personal finance, he brings an unusually broad lens to engineering decisions that balance technical, operational, and human factors.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial & Systems Engineering Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial & Systems Engineering Honors at University of WashingtonSystems Engineering, Systems Engineering at United States Naval Academy
Github Skills (9)
object-oriented-programming10
python10
strings9
text-manipulation9
array-iterator8
array-comparison8
operation8
array-merge8
set-operations8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
UWPCE-PythonCert-ClassRepos/SP_Online_PY210
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Self Paced Online Py210 (2019)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:West primarily worked on the development of Python code, specifically focusing on creating puzzle solutions and exercises. Their contributions included the implementation of various puzzle functions related to string manipulation, array operations, and basic logic. Furthermore, the user created and modified several Python files that appear to be part of a larger lesson or tutorial, highlighting their involvement in back-end development tasks. They also contributed to Object Oriented Mailroom with new classes and functionalities.
pytorchself-pacedpython
westobrien/SP_Online_PY210
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Self Paced Online Py210 (2019)
Contributions:21 pushes in 4 months
pytorchself-pacedpython
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