Harrison Yuen
Senior Software Engineer at Okta
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Yuen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with five years of experience building scalable, distributed systems—primarily in finance—with Java at firms like HSBC and OKX and now at Okta. He specializes in backend engineering using Java, Kafka streaming, Redis caching, and the ELK stack, and complements that with Python and SQL for exploratory data analysis and Tableau dashboards. Harrison has moved through fast-paced environments from startups to large enterprises, demonstrating an ability to deliver production-grade services under regulatory and performance constraints. Comfortable across the stack, he blends system design and hands-on implementation to optimize reliability and throughput. Actively seeking remote roles in Central and Eastern timezones, he brings both practical engineering depth and a keen interest in data-informed decision making. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency—translating data insights into backend improvements that measurably impact business metrics.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computing, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Github Skills (4)
java4
web-application3
webapp3
webapp-framework2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
harrison-yck/short-url
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 82 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
harrison-yck/coding_problem
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:144 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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