Connor Snitker

Building identity, trust, and infrastructure at Internet scale.

Principal engineer with a deep systems foundation spanning Internet protocols, Linux, concurrent programming, distributed infrastructure, security architecture, and production reliability.

I apply that foundation to DNS, registrar systems, RDAP/WHOIS, PKI, and autonomous-agent trust. I lead ANS open-source engineering and major specification work, lead development of GoDaddy's ANS Registration Authority, and wrote its transparency-log implementation.

Selected ecosystems
GoDaddyAgent Name ServiceIETFICANNLinux Foundation / LFDTAAIF
DNSRegistrarRDAPIdentityPKITrustAgents

Built across the trust stack

From naming and authoritative data through identity, security, and autonomous-agent trust.

Naming

DNSEPPRegistrar

Authoritative Data

RDAPWHOISRegistration data

Identity

PKIX.509Proof of control

Security

Threat modelingGDPRSecurity certification

Agent Systems

ANSDiscoveryTransparencyVerifiable trust

Standards

IETFICANNHCSLFDT

Systems underneath the architecture

The identity and agent work sits on top of a broader engineering background: networks, operating systems, concurrency, distributed state, cryptography, performance, and the realities of operating critical services.

Networking

TCP/IP · sockets · DNS · HTTP · TLS · connection and failure behavior

Concurrency & runtime

Goroutines · synchronization · bounded work · backpressure · resource management

Distributed systems

Multi-region state · consistency · retries · idempotency · partial failure

Security & cryptography

PKI · X.509 · ACME · signing · encryption · trust-boundary design

Infrastructure

Linux · containers · Kubernetes · cloud networking · CI/CD · release systems

Performance & operations

Latency · throughput · profiling · observability · resilience · capacity

Selected Work

Agent Name Service

ROLE: Open Source Lead / Specification Owner / GoDaddy RA Technical LeadExplore architecture

Leading ANS open-source engineering, specification development, and GoDaddy's operational implementation as the project moves toward neutral Linux Foundation governance.

Open Source · Specification · Registration Authority · Agent Identity · DNS · PKI · Transparency Logs · Security · Rust · Go

RDAP / WHOIS Infrastructure

ROLE: Lead ArchitectExplore architecture

Architecture for GoDaddy’s globally distributed registration-data systems, spanning authoritative state, multi-region delivery, protocol interoperability, resilience, and production operability.

RDAP · WHOIS · Registrar · Distributed Systems · Multi-Region · Resilience · Internet Protocols · Privacy

Selected public work

Career trajectory

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Public discussion

Speaking

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July 2026Rare Evo

Rare Evo 2026 conference appearance

June 2026Linux Foundation / LFDT

ANS open-governance discussion