Robert Ankeny
Co-Founder at Invariant Technology
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Ankeny is a security-focused software engineer and founder based in Mountain View, California, with 13+ years building secure, scalable systems. As Co-Founder of Invariant Technology since 2024, he steers security engineering and DevOps at a fast-growing startup. He previously built enterprise-grade security at Google (2013–2021) and Aurora (2021–2024), with earlier IT residency work, blending hands-on coding with operations. An active open-source contributor and QA/test automation engineer, he has contributed back-end and DevOps work to google/capirca and advanced testing in jellyfin. He holds a Bachelor of Information Security and Forensics from Rochester Institute of Technology, and brings a broad toolkit—C/C++, Python, Bash, Linux, networking, cryptography, and hardware—to deliver practical, auditable security solutions.
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)
net10
jellyfin10
acl10
dotnet10
csharp10
xunit10
python10
aspnet10
dotnet-core10
testing10
cisco9
Programming languages (8)
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.
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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.
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