Full Name
Rob Seastrom
Job Title
Chief Architect
Company
ARIN Advisory Council, ByteGrid
Speaker Bio
Robert Seastrom works in the Cyber CTO’s office at Capital One, where his background in building Internet infrastructure contributes to building scalable and secure banking infrastructure. His industry experience spans a quarter century of engineering and management positions at small and large ISPs, hosting providers, and maintaining critical Internet infrastructure. Robert has held positions at Neustar, Time Warner Cable, Afilias, Neutral Net, Inter.NetGlobal Ltd., Akamai Technologies, AboveNet Communications, and Digex, and built pioneering ISPs in Japan and the Republic of Georgia. His nonprofit service includes serving as a Trusted Community Representative (Crypto Officer) for signing the DNSSEC root, co-founding and serving as first president of the Cambridge Bandwidth Consortium (a cooperative ISP in Massachusetts), the NANOG Board of Directors, and board positions with educational organizations related to amateur radio and firearm safety. First elected to the AC in October of 2003, Robert was re-elected in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018. His current term expires 31 December 2021.
Rob Seastrom