Colin Robbins
Principal Security Consultant at Nexor
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Robbins is a Principal Security Consultant based in Nottingham with decades-long expertise in secure communications, specialising in high-assurance environments, cross-domain data-centric security and resilient information exchange for denied, degraded and intermittent networks. He served as Nexor’s CTO and long-time CISO, led the consultancy Qonex, and has audited PKI and trust services across defence, public sector and commercial clients against ISO 27001, eIDAS and CA/Browser standards. Colin combines deep technical roots—authoring the early QUIPU X.500/LDAP work at UCL that later commercialised widely—with practical delivery of smart-card, identity and HSM solutions in large-scale projects. He advises boards on cyber strategy and supply-chain security, while maintaining hands-on research into applying data-centric techniques to real-world constrained networks. A retired cyber professional who still contributes through consultancy and home automation projects, he brings rare continuity from early internet directory engineering to modern assurance and accreditation practice.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
AlleynsUniversity College London
Github Skills (115)
lit-element10
custom-component10
python10
lollipop10
home-assistant-integration10
energy10
automation10
node-red10
home-assistant10
electricity10
mqtt10
polymer10
weconnect10
chromecast10
home-automation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ColinRobbins/Home-Assistant-Core
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 8 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
ColinRobbins/scm-helper
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Helper tool to manage data in Swim Club Manager
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 419 commits in 2 years 3 months
swimhelper-tool
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