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Hakan Okay

@hakanokay

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Software Engineer with a habit of owning problems end-to-end.

Canada

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Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building the parts that make products work: reliable backend services, clean frontends, automation, and the tooling that keeps teams moving. Comfortable across Go, TypeScript, React, and Python, with a habit of owning problems end-to-end and making them solid in production.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

Current

Cisco (Meraki)

Sep 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Built the Workflows TypeScript SDK from scratch, including CLI tooling, React hooks, and session management. Shipped 50+ features for the Workflows UI React frontend and architected API key authentication with a Go-based auth service.

TypeScript React Go Kubernetes Helm CI CD API Gateway Nginx CORS Microservices

Software Engineer

TwinsMusic Enterprises

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (6 months)

Engineered a subscription-based sound and music library platform for content creators, owning the full technical stack. Delivered the web application using React, Next.js, and TypeScript, and designed the backend API and PostgreSQL database schema.

React Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL Redis CI CD Test Containers Backend Development

Data Scientist

Datablast

Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 (11 months)

Created and shipped CLI features for a data pipeline tool using Python. Integrated new analytics KPIs and optimized report generation using FastAPI and BigQuery, and constructed batch and streaming ETL pipelines using Kafka, Airflow, and Pandas.

Python fastAPI BigQuery Kafka Airflow Pandas ETL Data Pipelines