Full Name
Robert Seastrom
Job Title
Distinguished Engineer
Company
Capital One (plus ClueTrust, ARIN BoT)
Speaker Bio
Robert Seastrom is a Distinguished Engineer in the Information Security Office at Capital One, where his background in building Internet infrastructure contributes to building scalable and secure banking infrastructure. His industry experience spans over three decades 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, cofounding 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. Robert served on the ARIN Advisory Council from 2004 to 2022. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in October 2022. His current term ends 31 December 2025.
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