Marcel Sands
Data Center Engineer
Austell, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Sands is a seasoned data center and systems engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating infrastructure for higher education and SaaS environments. He progressed through hands-on roles at universities into senior systems engineering and tech lead positions at Mailchimp, and now applies that operational rigor to data center engineering at Kobiton. Marcel blends Linux systems administration, email/system migrations, monitoring, and web application server management with a persistent curiosity for web development and new programming languages. He’s comfortable both leading technical teams and doing the deep, day-to-day troubleshooting that keeps services reliable at scale. Based in Austell, Georgia, he values learning from diverse people and cultures and balances technical focus with family time and community spirit. An engineer who codes by night, he brings practical cross-domain experience that helps bridge operations and development.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
N/A Computer Information Systems, N/A Computer Information Systems at Georgia Southern UniversityN/A OmniNetworking Program, N/A OmniNetworking Program at OmniTech Institute
English
Github Skills (26)
git9
vim9
zsh9
cli9
shell9
rails-app8
prezto8
endpoints7
magicmirror7
raspberry-pi6
mirror6
javascript6
asset-pipeline5
modular5
commons4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
msands/ruby
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
highLionDigital/laptrack
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
track lap times from various go kart facilities
Contributions:31 PRs, 19 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 3 months
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