I’m Hakan Okay. I build software that teams can rely on.

I’ve been the kind of person who can’t leave things alone once I’m curious about them. If something breaks, feels slow, or doesn’t make sense, I’ll usually end up digging until I understand what’s really happening under the hood.

At some point that curiosity turned into a habit: building small tools, automating annoying workflows, and learning how systems behave in the real world. I liked the feeling of making something cleaner and more reliable, not just "working", but working consistently.

Over time I found myself gravitating toward the stuff that products depend on: backend services, infrastructure, CI/CD, and the internal tooling that keeps projects moving. I still enjoy product work too, especially React frontends, but I’m happiest when I’m owning a problem end-to-end and making it solid in production.

Today I’m at Cisco working on Workflows, building an automation platform that helps teams reduce repetitive operational work across Cisco and third-party systems. It’s the kind of project I love: enterprise scale, real users, and a lot of interesting engineering across Go, TypeScript, React, and Rails.