Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is an American Internet content author, and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot.

[citation needed] In 1997, Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College.

[7] On March 5, 2012, Malda was appointed as Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large of WaPo Labs, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

WaPo Labs became Trove, for which Malda was Chief Strategist and Head of Product, before shutting down in December, 2015.

[9][10] Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot on February 14, 2002.