Jason Highet
Director, Engineering Practice (Spend Clarity For Enterprise) at Visa
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJason Highet is a seasoned engineering leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience as a developer, architect, and manager, currently directing Engineering Practice for Visa's Spend Clarity for Enterprise. He specializes in aligning technical excellence with business outcomes by defining pragmatic engineering practices, driving debt recovery and quality improvements, and coaching engineers and leaders across product and platform boundaries. Passionate about complexity and systems theory, Jason applies ideas like constraints, self-organization, and emergence to create adaptive, resilient teams and architectures. He has a long history of shipping enterprise .NET systems and evolving delivery practices from his time as a solutions architect and senior developer at Fraedom/Spendvision and other firms. A lifelong learner based in Auckland, he balances technical leadership with creative pursuits—producing eclectic music, DJing with custom-built software, judging beer, and running Kea Scouts—bringing a curious, interdisciplinary perspective to engineering culture.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Business Computing, National Diploma, Business Computing at Auckland University of TechnologyMicrosoft .Net Certifications
English
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Github Skills (22)
pandora10
pulse10
crossword9
qbcore-framework9
audio9
ai8
ord7
lilypond7
edtech7
pytorch7
stable-diffusion7
guitar7
piano7
deep-learning7
music-composition6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jasonhighet/Halloumi.Notez
Dec 2018 - Oct 2023
C# utilities around musical notes, guitar tabs, and midi
Contributions:35 PRs, 283 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 11 months
edtechnotesmusic-compositionqbcore-frameworkmidi
jasonhighet/Halloumi.Shuffler
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Poor quality DJ software
Contributions:296 commits, 3 PRs, 291 pushes in 6 years 11 months
crosswordpooraudiopulsequality
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