Courtney Oka
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCourtney Oka is a Software Engineering Manager at Affirm with a decade of experience building and leading remote engineering teams across fintech and developer platforms. She progressed through individual contributor roles at GitHub and Microsoft into senior and staff positions at Affirm, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership and delivery ownership. Courtney has a practical testing and automation background—contributing to GitHub Enterprise backup utilities by improving test infrastructure and parallelization—which complements her reliability-first approach to systems. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she pairs technical rigor with creative pursuits outside work, including music and circus arts, which inform her collaborative, risk-taking leadership style. She is passionate about learning, iterating quickly, and helping engineers grow by encouraging experimentation and constructive failure.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Github Skills (10)
sh10
bash10
script10
backup10
shell10
scripting10
test-automation10
testing10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github/backup-utils
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 56 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Courtney primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the `github/backup-utils` repository. Their commits included modifications to existing test scripts (`test-ghe-backup.sh`, `test-ghe-restore.sh`, `test-ghe-backup-config.sh`), introduction of parallel testing capabilities, and adjustments to the test environment. The user also made changes related to the configuration and setup of tests, incorporating new test cases.
backups
oakeyc/azure-cli-shell
Apr 2017 - May 2020
Interactive Shell for Microsoft Azure CLI 2.0
Contributions:2 PRs, 155 pushes, 83 branches in 3 years 1 month
bashmicrosoft-azureazuremicrosoftshell
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