Mark Nagel
Co-Founder at Epiphany Advisors
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Nagel is a strategic operator and founder with a decade of focused experience helping organizations—from startups to city governments—improve performance through strategic planning, measurement, and organizational change. As Co-Founder of RescueSF he combines data-driven advocacy with coalition-building across San Francisco’s neighborhoods to tackle homelessness, and as Principal at Epiphany Advisors he advises growth companies on strategy, fundraising, and M&A. His background spans investment banking, private equity, and a CEO turnaround role, giving him deep financial modeling and transaction experience paired with operational chops. He co-taught organizational performance management at Stanford GSB and authored a public-sector performance framework, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and hands-on implementation. Also comfortable in technical environments, he has contributed backend integrations to the popular LibreNMS open-source monitoring project, extending device support and SNMP telemetry. Trained as a lawyer and a political scientist (Harvard J.D. and Ph.D.), he brings analytical rigor and policy experience to complex organizational problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Government and Economics, B.A., Government and Economics at Georgetown UniversityPh.D., Political Science, Ph.D., Political Science at Harvard UniversityJ.D., J.D. at Harvard Law School
Github Skills (9)
snmpd10
snmp10
firewall10
php10
network-monitoring10
monitoring9
git7
laravel-mix5
laravel5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Sep 2015 - Jul 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Integrator
Back-end Developer & System IntegratorContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark's primary contributions revolve around extending the LibreNMS monitoring system to include support for SonicWALL devices. They implemented and refined modules for discovering and polling memory and CPU utilization metrics from SonicWALL firewalls using SNMP. Furthermore, they made modifications to the core system definitions to integrate the new monitoring capabilities and improved the handling of Unix and FreeBSD distro detection. Additionally, they updated a third-party library to enable and catch exceptions.
network-monitoringnetworkmonitoringphprrd
ciscoqid/librenms
Oct 2015 - Jul 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplfreeswitch
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