Summary
Mark Silverman is a methodical senior customer support engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience maintaining and troubleshooting ISP, webhosting, colocation, and datacenter networks. Based in Baltimore, he has progressed from NOC technician roles to Tier 1 escalation lead at Cogent Communications, combining Linux CLI fluency, monitoring tools (Nagios/Munin/Netcool), and strong incident coordination across field engineering and off-net providers. He excels at mentoring junior staff, documenting procedures, and resolving wide-area service outages while keeping customer experience front and center. Actively seeking remote network administration or engineering roles, he is especially interested in deepening expertise in Unix system administration, web hosting, data visualization, cybersecurity, and cloud/virtualization. A quietly curious operator, he pairs meticulous troubleshooting discipline with a continual drive to reclaim and expand hands-on systems skills.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer