Andy Robbins
Owner at Andy Robbins Photo Art / Puppy Pet Photography
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Robbins is a seasoned IT and data platform leader with over 25 years of experience designing, operating, and protecting enterprise database and data services across education, financial services, and aerospace. He specializes in modernizing hybrid-cloud, mission-critical platforms—driving measurable outcomes such as a $25M cost reduction migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL/AWS RDS and cutting backup costs from $2.8M to $620K while sustaining exceptional recovery success rates. Comfortable in highly regulated and DoD-accredited environments, he has implemented controls aligned to NIST, CMMC, ISO 27001, and SOX and handled ITAR/EAR/CUI-classified data. A pragmatic operator and people leader, he builds trusted, high-performing teams and balances automation, governance, and service-minded operational discipline. He also contributes hands-on to security tooling—e.g., PowerShell work for Windows event forwarding—and evaluates applied AI for service automation, reflecting a blend of technical depth and strategic vision. Based in Arvada, Colorado, Andy favors clarity, accountability, and mentoring to translate complex technical constraints into reliable, auditable business value.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Business Admin, BA, Business Admin at Fort Lewis College
English
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Github Skills (7)
powershell10
audit10
auditing10
code-auditing10
audit-logging10
audit-trail10
active-directory9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/windows-event-forwarding
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A repository for using windows event forwarding for incident detection and response
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to a PowerShell script designed to forward Windows Event Log data, likely for security incident detection and response. Their work focused on enhancing the script's functionality by adding logic to enumerate local group members, updating field delimiters, and fixing errors in the `Write-EventLog` parameters. They also refined how the domain FQDN is retrieved and removed redundant variable printing.
forwardingwindows-serverwindowsincident-responseocto-correct-managed
andyrobbins/Small-scripts-and-one-liners
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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