Mark Rechler
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Tines
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Rechler is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building and maintaining Linux-first production systems across startups and larger tech firms. He brings deep expertise in Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS and has moved from hands-on systems engineering roles at Brightcove, iHeartRadio and Bitly to infrastructure leadership at Justworks. Mark contributes to open-source tooling—improving performance and metric hygiene in the popular statsdaemon Go implementation—reflecting a pragmatic approach to observability and networked services. Known for removing bottlenecks (e.g., replacing regexes and tuning UDP packet sizing) and for practical feature work like metric prefixing, he blends systems-level troubleshooting with backend development. He holds a software engineering degree from NJIT and consistently focuses on reliable, performant infrastructure that scales.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, IT: Software Engineering, Bachelors, IT: Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
collections10
go10
data-collection10
metric10
performance-optimization9
udp9
command-line-arguments8
testing8
cli-flags8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bitly/statsdaemon
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
an implementation of Etsy's statsd in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the `statsdaemon` project's functionality. They implemented features like sanitizing metric names and adding a flag to handle gauge values more effectively. Additionally, the user made performance improvements by removing regular expressions and bumping the maximum UDP packet size. They also introduced support for prefixing and postfixing metrics and made various bug fixes and code cleanups.
gostatsd
markrechler/statsdaemon
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:25 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
golangstatsdetsy
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