Summary
Madeline Kotara is a Systems Network Administrator with 10 years of hands-on experience building and securing Linux and Windows infrastructure for a university environment. She combines rigorous hardening and access control practices with automation in Bash, Python, and PowerShell to reduce toil, accelerate maintenance, and parse large datasets for actionable insight. At Trinity University she has managed core services (DHCP, DNS, AD), virtualized servers, JAMF and KACE deployments, and a rotating on-call roster to sustain uptime. Her background in networking protocols, virtualization, and cloud enables smooth support for hybrid environments and consistent device provisioning via golden images. A practical reverse engineer and cybersecurity practitioner, she stays current on emerging threats and injects that threat-awareness into operations. Based in the San Antonio area, she pairs technical depth with a knack for mentoring student staff and streamlining campus IT workflows.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Northeast Lakeview College