Robert Ankeny
Co-Founder at Invariant Technology
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Ankeny is a security-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and auditing infrastructure, backups, and networked systems across roles at Google and Aurora and now as Co-Founder of Invariant Technology. He brings deep hands-on expertise in systems administration, cryptography, networking protocols, and scripting (Python, Bash, C/C++), coupled with practical DevOps experience contributing to notable open-source projects like Google’s capirca. At Google he progressed from an IT residency to security engineering, blending operational rigour with vulnerability remediation and test-driven fixes—evident in his QA and back-end contributions to Jellyfin and capirca. Based in Mountain View, he has a strong background in troubleshooting and automation (including streamlining help-desk audits and backup systems) and an uncommon mix of low-level hardware/electronics knowledge alongside high-level security engineering.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Security & Forensics, Computer Security, Computer Forensics, System and Network Administration, Information Security & Forensics, Computer Security, Computer Forensics, System and Network Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
jellyfin10
asp-net10
acl10
net10
dotnet10
csharp10
xunit10
python10
dotnet-core10
testing10
cisco9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/capirca
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Multi-platform ACL generation system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 57 PRs, 139 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the project by modifying existing code and updating configuration files. The commits indicate involvement in fixing issues related to Cisco object-group optimization and duplicate policy checks in Juniper SRX. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `setup.py` file and a cloudarmor testing file, indicating some interaction with the project's build and testing infrastructure, as well as testing different ACL configurations.
netmikonetwork-automationtraceroutemulti-platformnetwork-programming
jellyfin/jellyfin
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on writing and improving unit tests for the `jellyfin/jellyfin` repository, a free software media system. Their work involved adding tests for the `AiredEpisodeOrderComparer`, changing the namespace and test names for better description. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to test structure, separating error and good cases. The user also added new tests related to `PremiereDate` which helped resolve a bug related to episode ordering.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
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