Andrew McAllister is a highly skilled IT professional with a passion for designing, building, and maintaining complex systems and networks. With over a decade of experience in network and system architecture, Andrew has designed solutions for scale and simplicity while meeting the productivity needs of user and clients.

Currently working as an architect at Databricks Inc, Andrew's primary focus is identity at scale and automation. He has a comprehensive understanding of IT technologies from business-critical applications such as Exchange/Okta/GoogleApps, Infrastructure as Code, Virtualization to SaaS and Network Core technologies. At MuleSoft, he was involved in Network Architecture, API design, and integrations to connect corporate SaaS applications and their data together.

Andrew's professional ventures started in high school running a small home business of building custom computers and residential networks. He furthered his passion for technology by completing an A.A.S degree in Computer Information Technologies and moving to the SF Bay area. Since then, he has worked for several top companies in and around San Francisco, building a broad scope of IT knowledge.

In addition to his IT expertise, Andrew has recently dabbled in the world of investment real estate. He enjoys building all-star teams to design, build and maintain amazing multi-family units. His focus is on floor planning, kitchen design, incorporating operational contracts, and strategies around financing construction projects.

Andrew is an expert in several IT areas, such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, CI/CD, github, Cisco ASA (5500)/Routers/Catalyst, Checkpoint, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto Networks, Meraki, zScaler, Netapp, IBM, Dell Compellent, equallogic (4000,6500) FC/iSCSI/NFS, MS Server 2003-2016R2, centos/redhat, windows/mac osx, Exchange 2003/2010/DAG, Active Directory, Group Policy, ISA, MDT, RDS, WSUS, RRAS, NPS, Vmware ESXi, Powershell, Python, Node.js, Golang, and MuleSoft.