Christopher Seigel

Robert is a strong leader of people, a great team collaborator and has an incredible depth of

security knowledge.

Robert and I first started working on the same project in November 2020 shortly after I was hired

into Uber's Mergers and Acquisition Security team, where he was the Routematch security POC

when Uber procured the company. The project was to address the results of a Security Risk

Assessment Penetration Test completed by Uber's vulnerability management team that revealed

high risk findings that needed to be remediated. The findings were serious and complicated to

remediate.

Robert immediately began teaming with me to address the findings, and especially of his focus

on "finding a solution" to a security state that he inherited. Never once did Robert avoid doing

the hard work it took to address the issues. Furthermore, Robert was provided added resources

so that he could both address the high risk findings, and keep the RM environment operational,

and when he was assigned his team, he gave them clear and concise instructions, helped them

understand past events, and gave strong technical guidance on how to address complex issues.

All the while managing leadership asks and updates.

Lucine Wang

I worked with Robert on multiple RouteMatch incidents in a 3-month time. The

incidents involved members from multiple teams. Robert worked tirelessly to address

all the issues during the incidents. The incident response wouldn't have been

successful without Robert's full support and help.

● Robert worked very well in a team environment. He contributed ideas and

perspectives for the team to mitigate and investigate the incidents. When

needed, he was able to quickly bring in SMEs to support the incidents. This

demonstrated his leadership. As a leader, he seeks out truth fearlessly, he does

the right thing.

● Robert is self-starting. He was always very responsive and staying on top of the

incident response action items. He followed through on all the "thousands" of

big or small action items. He often worked very late at night to make sure what

needs to be done is done.

● Robert understands both business needs and security risks. He was able to

articulate both very well in communications.

● Robert is a cultural champion. He encouraged collaboration and respected ideas

throughout the incidents.

● Robert is also a security champion. He constantly advocated security within his

group. He fully supported the security roadmap for RouteMatch+UberTransit

and actively drove the implementation plan.

Robert is one of the best and strongest partners I've worked with in hundreds of

incidents. I feel lucky that we had Robert in these high-impact incidents.

Kristin Davis

I worked closely with Robert on the RM Privacy and Security Committee prior to the

acquisition where we would often review potential policies prior to consideration by the

full committee. Robert provided valuable insights while working with me to move the

project forward. I was most impressed with his ability to calmly and meticulously

advocate for additional resources when faced with budgetary roadblocks. I also

appreciate his willingness to explain and discuss security issues and frameworks with

me when I have both customer related issues and questions for my own

understanding.

Ali Leckie

Robert has been a wonderful teammate to work with. At times when it felt like no one

would listen to the requests from the PSO team, hitting roadblocks from clients, also

those who were not willing to, Robert took the time to meet, listen, and really ﬁnd a

solution to many of the technical issues that were beyond my scope. He did this with

respect, and kindness, ensuring that he did whatever he could to address the issue at

hand.

As my non-direct manager, he was supportive and didn't dismiss the requests or

questions. His team is top-notch and you can tell that they all appreciate him and the

environment he has created. I commend him for standing his ground on certain issues,

as there are times when one should take a stance and try and ﬁnd an alternative

solution.

I look forward to continuing to work and collaborate with Robert and his entire team

during our careers.

Bryan Casper

I had the opportunity to work with Robert both directly and through my Org during

some diﬃcult security incidents post Routematch acquisition.

Robert always sought to do right and I have found him to always act with integrity and

do what he said he would do. He is not only capable (led the mitigations) but he is

also humble. Taking help from teams to create an outcome that is greater than the sum

of it's parts. (Security roadmap, investigations, and processes).

Uber is lucky to have Robert who has a strong drive to impvrove his program and

reduce risk.

John Turner

#TripObsessed and #DoTheRightThing

- Robert consistently shows a bias to action and focus on prioritization. This initiative to

go beyond the minimum helps the team and helps ensure that all vulnerabilities are

handled within SLA. A recent example was prior to launching a dedicated Routematch

program. Robert wrote a comprehensive analysis exploring the pros and cons of

launching a bounty program in the context of Routematch's capabilities and staﬃng.

He showed both sides and assessed risk to Uber both with and without a Routematch

program. Robert showed there were many tradeoﬀs to consider on both sides and in

the end recommended the best strategy was no bounty program at all even though

management did not agree.

#OneUber

- When working with Robert on projects, he adds value by providing additional context

and background from initiatives and eﬀorts both from Routematch teams as well as

other Uber teams. As the Routematch SME, he has information that day-to-day

operational teams may not have, such as what the longer term plan and objectives are,

the priorities of ELT and senior managers, and a more longer term line of sight beyond

today or this week. This helps me and my team avoid blockers and helps us be

prepared and active instead of reactive.

Further, Robert showed #OneUber values by not blocking or limiting his eﬀorts only to

Routematch assets. Robert joined the bounty team via Uber Gig marketplace and

quickly adapted and began helping with vulnerability reports for Uber assets, not just

Routematch. He did this all while handling lead responsibilities at Routematch for the

decommission of the QTS system. He also quickly adapted to the recent divestiture of

Routematch and showed an eager willingness to use his experience triaging and

investigating Uber vulnerabilities to increase eﬀectiveness and add value to the bounty

team while more speciﬁc direction and plans are determined by management.

Vinay Venkateswara Rao

As a gig worker Robert has worked on various tasks in the Bug Bounty team. The

following are examples of his #gogetit attitude that helped reduce the load on the team

tremendously.

● Proactive in handling various bug bounty cases

● Helping reduce the Bug Bounty backlog by interacting with the dev teams and

explaining the bugs/ﬁx

● Showing tremendous interesting in learning new technologies and tools to

contribute to the team more eﬃciently

The following are examples of #greatmindsdon'tthinkalike

● Providing valuable feedback on current processes, especially with the

inconsistent and subjective payout methodology

● Providing insight on making the processes better

He also had a #dotherightthing mentality, questioned many practices within the team

to better understand and stood his ground when Bug Bounty payout reasoning didn't

make sense.