Jesse Okeya
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJesse Okeya is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and Co-Founder with nine years building scalable, event-driven systems and customer-facing products from Ottawa. He combines hands-on backend expertise with AWS serverless architectures, microservices, and real-time APIs with a strong front-end sensibility from shipping UX-driven features across startups and scaleups. At Ask Benny he’s applying distributed-systems thinking to an AI answering-service that handles multilingual concurrent calls, and previously delivered integration-focused commerce APIs and automation at Extend. Known for rapid learning and ownership, he repeatedly bridges product strategy and engineering execution, improving developer experience through testing and process improvements. Outside the obvious stack, he brings practical data modeling and automation skills honed across video, health-tech, and analytics domains.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (102)
javascript-api10
javascript10
api10
github-api10
trending10
json-api10
data-structure10
display-project10
algorithms10
chrome-extension10
data-structures10
npm9
chrome9
full-stack9
amazon-dynamodb8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jesseokeya/byteMarshall
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
ByteMarshall is a collaborative runtime environment for various programming languages
Contributions:54 commits, 29 pushes in 10 months
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jesseokeya/Forbes400
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
JSON Api Of The Forbes 400 Richest People List
Contributions:63 commits, 31 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 years 2 months
json-apiapiforbesforbes400billionaires
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