Summary
Jake Visser is a Principal Architect Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience designing enterprise information protection, data classification, and device security across corporate and defense environments. A former Australian Army Signals Officer, he blends operational communications and electronic warfare expertise with large-scale cloud security architecture, having led company-wide Azure Information Protection deployment and modernized reporting for Co-pilot/AI data protection. He has a strong systems engineering and IT academic background from UNSW and a track record of building cross-functional programs—spanning hardware security, application control, and Internet edge compliance—that deliver measurable risk reduction. Known for moving between hands-on technical design and enterprise governance, Jake also co-founded embedded systems firms and advocates open-source integration in complex, regulated settings.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Royal Military College - Duntroon
Port Dalrymple School
Newstead College
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at UNSW Canberra