Karen Fishwick
Owner at Highway Three Solutions
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Fishwick is the founder and CEO of Highway Three Solutions with over 25 years in IT and 11 years leading her own consultancy, specializing in ITSM, Atlassian tooling, cloud-native digital asset management, and large-scale migrations. She combines hands-on technical leadership—designing AWS-based microservices, Aspera integrations, Spark/Python data ingestion pipelines, and complex Jira migrations—with project and product ownership for public- and private-sector clients. Her background as an Oracle middle-tier/DBA and Solaris/Unix operator informs pragmatic, infrastructure-aware solutions for performance and reliability. Recent highlights include leading DAM/DMP platforms that ingest 200+ GB/day, technical leadership on media-focused platforms, and managing the BC Open Data CKAN deployment into production. Colleagues describe her as a mentor who pairs deep systems knowledge with a knack for translating business needs into scalable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Co-Op Physics Minor Mathematics, BSc Co-Op Physics Minor Mathematics at University of Victoria
Github Skills (34)
catalog9
ckan-extension9
api9
open-data9
credit9
ckan9
python8
publish8
iso8
metadata8
dms8
dbpedia7
itil7
commons7
data-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HighwayThree/ExalateTest
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
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