Marty Shannon is a seasoned Senior Linux System Administrator with over a decade of experience managing production infrastructure for organizations like The New York Times, eMusic, LinkShare, and Answers.com. He automates repetitive tasks into robust scripts (bash, perl), builds multi-threaded log collection and analysis pipelines, and treats monitoring as first-class engineering using tools like Zabbix to capture long-term trends—even for his home lab of five machines and a NAS. Deep practical skills span RPM packaging, Apache, DNS, DHCP, SSH, LDAP, SNMP, and RHEL 5, paired with a fondness for regex and data-driven operations. After a medical hiatus in 2014, he relocated to Florida and now operates under the Joatmon handle, combining retired flexibility with hands-on infrastructure instincts. Notably, he favors turning operational insight into measurable trends rather than one-off fixes, giving him an engineer’s discipline and an operator’s obsession with observability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
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