Summary
Mark Coccimiglio is a seasoned Linux System Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience supporting research and web hosting environments, currently managing research systems at Rice University. He combines deep UNIX systems administration with scripting skills in Python and Perl, plus practical networking knowledge in Cisco IOS and low-level C/C++ experience. His background spans higher education, commercial hosting (HostGator), and small-business operations, giving him a pragmatic blend of security, incident response, and business-process perspective. Mark prefers contributing to open source software development, signaling a focus on collaborative, community-driven tooling rather than proprietary projects. Based in Spring, Texas, he pairs an electrical and electronics foundation with a long track record of stabilizing production systems and investigating complex outages.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pennco Tech-Bristol