Jesse Okeya
Co-Founder at Ask Benny
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJesse 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.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carleton UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Great Lakes College Of Torornto
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Github Skills (123)
javascript-api10
api10
json-api10
javascript9
dynamodb9
github-api9
amazon-dynamodb9
trending9
rest-api9
npm9
algorithms9
chrome-extension9
data-structures9
json9
nodejs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jesseokeya/go-rest-api-template
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Go rest api template built with go-chi and upperdb
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golangapirest-api-templaterest-gogo-rest-api
jesseokeya/jesseokeya
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:102 commits, 1 PR, 535 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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