# Pastebin V1RAbsqh
Robert is the founder and lead geek for MusicBrainz ( http:musicbrainz.org ), and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the non-profit organization that pays the bills for MusicBrainz. After studying Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo he joined Xing Technology where he shaped the MP3 efforts and then spent time for the dot com boom on EMusic’s FreeAmp team. While at EMusic he started working on MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia and fell in love with Open Source software.

Robert is also an active hardware hacker, creating art projects for Burning Man and Nowhere. He is the co-founder of Party Robotics ( http://partyrobotics.com ) where he co-created Bartendro the open source cocktail robot. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Follow Robert on Twitter: @mayhemBCN