Rob leads Big Data platform architecture for Akamai, building compute, storage, and transport systems processing over an exabyte a year. He is the Chair of the Akamai Center of Excellence in Machine Learning, founder of the BSides Ground Truth track, and author of the Blarpy anomaly detection tool. Additionally, he brings academics to reality as co-editor of the Journal of Big Data. He is also the founder of Red Lambda, and its former CTO.