Nick Fisher
Staff Software Engineer at Marqeta
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Fisher is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with eight years of experience building resilient, high-throughput backend systems and improving operational reliability. He has led major migrations to cloud-native microservices, GitOps-driven deployments, and load-testing practices that eliminated deployment incidents and revealed scaling bottlenecks before customers noticed. Nick combines hands-on systems work (Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Java/Spring, AWS) with pragmatic automation—shipping tools that cut feedback loops from days to minutes and prevented repeated on-call toil. He’s driven cross-team initiatives like service mocking for isolated testing, engineering communities of practice, and reusable testing frameworks that materially sped development and reduced outages. A former trader-turned-engineer with an MS in Aerospace Engineering, he often finds solutions in the middle of the night and applies that pattern-driven thinking to reduce risk and increase velocity.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Linfield College
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nfisher23/webflux-and-dynamo
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nfisher23/reactive-programming-webflux
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:57 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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