Mark Martin
VP Of Engineering at SolarWinds
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMark Martin is a VP of Engineering and platform architect with 14 years of experience designing scalable data and observability systems from seed-stage startups to enterprise products in the San Francisco Bay Area. He led the re-architecture of Papertrail to support an order-of-magnitude growth and has progressed through technical and leadership roles at SolarWinds, Opsee, and UserVoice where he built teams around observability, automation, and CI/CD. Hands-on across back-end and DevOps, his open-source contributions to remote_syslog2 show a knack for improving reliability, dependency management, and build infrastructure. Known for translating operational pain into robust platform solutions, he blends product sensibility with deep systems engineering and infrastructure expertise.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
go10
syslog10
dockers9
docker9
configuration-management9
build-tools8
build-system8
automation8
automations8
release-management8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
papertrail/remote_syslog2
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
To install, see "Releases" tab. Self-contained daemon for reading local files and emitting remote syslog (without using local syslogd).
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 25 commits, 37 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the project's infrastructure and build processes. Their contributions include migrating the dependency management system, separating configuration from log watching, enhancing the tailing functionality, and addressing connection issues to improve the system's robustness. They also worked on updating the build environment and ensuring proper configuration management, demonstrating a strong understanding of both back-end development and operational aspects.
local-filessyslogpapertrailgodaemons
papertrail/go-tail
Nov 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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