Summary
Robert Montroy is an information systems and business security leader with 11 years of focused experience designing cloud-native architectures, securing enterprise workloads, and shepherding software development teams. He has led organization-wide cybersecurity governance and compliance programs using frameworks like NIST/FISMA, GDPR, and CIS while modernizing legacy systems into serverless, containerized, and high-performance cloud solutions. At Van Andel Institute he bridged research and IT by migrating petabytes of research data, implementing big-data analytics pipelines, and introducing DevSecOps practices across development teams. Now supervising information systems and business security at Great Lakes Energy, he combines hands-on software architecture and cloud security with people management and policy authorship. Notably, his background spans deep engineering work—from DB2 federated query development at IBM to biomedical data integration—giving him rare end-to-end fluency across infrastructure, applications, and compliance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Engineering, BSE Computer Engineering at University of Michigan