Roy Villa
Author at Elite Publishing LLC
Blaine, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Villa is a cybersecurity-focused technologist and founder with 9 years of concentrated experience (and a two-decade-plus technical career) building PKI automation, cloud migration labs, and performance engineering solutions for enterprise and federal clients. He has led end-to-end certificate automation projects—integrating Venafi, ServiceNow, DigiCert, Google Cloud CA and Azure Key Vault—created large-scale PowerShell load and regression harnesses, and supported tens of thousands of certificates across complex hybrid environments. Roy combines hands-on engineering (including front-end Unity work for Microsoft’s GalaxyExplorer) with strategic architecture and operational governance, having served on PKI technical and change review boards and authored automation roadmaps and training content. He runs a lab estate that mirrors production complexity (cloud HSM, Azure Entra, Sentinel, 60 CPUs/20TB on-prem), enabling realistic POCs for secure cloud migration and SSI experiments backed by Microsoft ION and Bitcoin. Based in Blaine, MN, he blends entrepreneurship with practical, repeatable automation that reduces manual workflows from hours to seconds, and he’s driven by lifelong learning and the credo “you can’t hack what does not exist.”
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Not a degree program, LAN/WAN Administraion, Not a degree program, LAN/WAN Administraion at Dunwoody College of Technology
Github Skills (10)
uid10
game-development10
front-end-development10
csharp10
ui-design10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
interface-design9
3d-graphics9
user-interface9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/GalaxyExplorer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Galaxy Explorer is the application Microsoft is building as part of the Share Your Idea campaign.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 33 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily worked on the front-end of the Galaxy Explorer application, addressing issues related to UI elements and POI indicators within the Unity environment. They fixed layout problems, adjusted the positioning and spacing of POIs, and corrected visual display issues such as halos and color separation. In addition, the user added a POI creation tool, integrating it into the solution, and made changes to transition scenes and camera behavior.
galaxymicrosoftexplorershareidea
elitemn/GalaxyExplorer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 41 pushes, 18 comments in 4 months
galaxymicrosoftexplorershareidea
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