Summary
Pete Toscano is an Information Systems and Security Director with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient networked systems, currently leading IS and security at ARIN after more than a decade advancing through operations and senior admin roles there. He combines deep Linux/Unix administration and network operations expertise with practical software skills—primarily Python and Bourne shell, plus Perl, C and Java—to solve infrastructure, automation, and security challenges in small-to-medium organizations. Pete has broad protocol and services knowledge (DNS, LDAP, mail systems, netfilter/iptables) and a history in both engineering and operational roles at firms like VeriSign, Network Solutions and PSINet. Comfortable wearing many hats, he is as likely to write tooling as to architect secure service deployments, and he brings a statistician’s analytical perspective from his academic background to troubleshoot complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Syracuse University
BA, Statistics, BA, Statistics at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
Computer Science, Computer Science at State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome