Nick Irvine
Principal Consultant at nfi.io
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNick Irvine is a Principal Consultant with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading nfi.io from Vancouver. He specializes in reducing developer toil and enabling zero-downtime delivery through pragmatic DevOps practices, Kubernetes, GCP migrations, and production-grade observability. Past roles include architecting large GKE fleets, templating multi-cluster networking, and replacing expensive metrics stacks with redundant Prometheus deployments while coaching teams to ship faster. Nick’s background spans game backend scale, enterprise SAML-enabled CI/CD with Spinnaker, and early work provisioning research clusters and campus AV systems, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective. He’s known in the community by GitHub handles like @nfi-hashicorp and brings a maker’s attention to reproducible automation and tooling. Practical, systems-focused, and developer-first, he prioritizes solutions that keep teams shipping with minimal overhead.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Computing, Honours, Co-op, Computer Science, Bachelors of Computing, Honours, Co-op, Computer Science at University of Guelph
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
python10
telegraf10
xpath10
influxdb10
monitoring10
ansible-module10
qt10
mqtt10
prometheus-alertmanager10
golang10
pagerduty10
json10
kubernetes10
kafka10
go10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nfirvine/osx-lock-on-remove-usb
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
Lock the screen on OS X when my yubikey is removed
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 7 years 3 months
yubikey
nfirvine/blog-circa-2016
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 5 months
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