Jesse O'Brien

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Person An icon of a human figure Status
Double Agent
Hash An icon of a hash sign Code Name
Agent 0096
Location An icon of a map marker Location
London, ON

Him mission

(he chose to accept it)
Building amazing user experiences
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Jesse is able to seamlessly meld frontend, backend, and operations. When Jesse explains these concepts, he makes them both accessible and simple for the audience to understand, no matter who is in it. His ability to lead, build, and mentor simultaneously makes his contribution that much more impactful.
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead
ZipRecruiter

Recent Deployments

Bulldozer
Building products
Compass
Teamcrafting
Wrench
Developer tooling
Journey
Mentorship

Tools & Tradecraft

Disc golfing

React

Distributed systems

Teamcrafting

Go

Noteworthy Achievements

Built a very early version of an ‘app’ (it was a web view) for the first iPad that runs an NICU at a level 1 trauma hospital
Architected and built an ordering pipeline in Go, Kafka and S3 to facilitate millions of food orders and billions in revenue per year for the Just Eat Group of companies
Built and documented a suite of Typescript libraries to improve the ability for a large engineering org to build smarter products faster

Reports from the Field

  1. Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code

    Stop paying down tech debt and start doing software maintenance. The real term we should all be talking about is maintenance, and it will help you and your team make it as habitual as sprints and retrospectives.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    January 20, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Jesse O'Brien
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    consulting
    process
    development

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