Summary
Jeremy Huiskamp is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems, cloud infrastructure and developer-focused tooling, now contributing to Okta from Canada. He combines hands-on delivery of microservices, event-sourced architectures and DevOps automation with cross-team technical leadership, having led platform transformations and engineering-excellence efforts at ThoughtWorks and OptioPay. His strengths include designing evolutionary-architecture fitness functions, pragmatic domain modelling, and creating testing and CI/CD practices that enable fast, reliable deployment. Jeremy’s background spans languages and ecosystems (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, TypeScript) and deep integrations in regulated domains such as healthcare and enterprise security. Colleagues rely on him equally for individual contributions and for shaping long-lived platform teams that reduce operational friction.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 87, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 87 at University of Guelph
English, German, French