Robert Hartill (Born January 30, 1969), in Pontypridd, Wales.

Rob grew up in Wales, studied computer science at Cardiff University where he earned a BSc and PhD.

In 1993 Rob became involved with the rec.arts.movies database that went on to become the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). On August 5 1993 he announced the first web version of the database.

In 1994 Rob moved to Los Alamos in New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos National Lab on the ArXiv.org e-print archive with Paul Ginsparg. At the same time, Rob was a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation contributing during the early years of the Apache_HTTP_Server development. In 1994 Rob was one of five inductees in the [Hall of Fame] announced at the First International Conference on the World Wide Web.

In 1996 the Internet Movie Database was founded and Rob returned to Ogmore-by-Sea in Wales, before leaving the IMDb in 2000 and emigrating to South Australia in May of 2003. He's currently a volunteer fire-fighter with the Country Fire Service and a hobby farmer.