Nick Fields
About Nick Fields
Nick Fields is the Lead DevOps Engineer at InVision in Asheville, North Carolina, with a background in software engineering and DevOps roles at Apiture, Viewpoint Construction Software, and General Dynamics Information Technology.
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Nick Fields is the Lead DevOps Engineer at InVision, based in the Asheville, North Carolina Area.
Professional Background
Nick Fields has a robust professional background in the DevOps and software engineering fields. He worked at Apiture as a DevOps Engineer from 2017 to 2019 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Prior to that, he served as a Software Engineer at Viewpoint Construction Software for four years, from 2013 to 2017, also in Wilmington. Fields began his career as a Software Test Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology, where he worked for three years from 2010 to 2013 in Warrenton, Virginia.
Education and Expertise
Nick Fields holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a degree in Business Administration from Lord Fairfax Community College. His academic background provides a strong foundation for his technical and managerial expertise in the DevOps domain.
Key Projects and Initiatives
Nick Fields has led several key projects and initiatives throughout his career. At InVision, he implemented a fully automated release process that significantly reduced the release time from over a day to less than an hour. He consolidated four Continuous Integration (CI) tools into one by transitioning from Jenkins, CodeShip, AppVeyor, and Travis to GitHub Actions. Additionally, he decreased the pull request build and test time from over an hour to under 15 minutes. Fields automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and Terraform and integrated UI and performance testing at every stage of the software development lifecycle. He also created a system to generate comprehensive release summaries, including Jira issues, commits, pull requests, and test results, shared via Slack with the entire organization.