Career Map
The path to agent identity and trust
Autonomous-agent infrastructure is not a pivot. It is where a career in networked systems, naming, registration data, protocols, security, and standards naturally converges.
2012 — 2025
Accumulated expertise
Five parallel tracks, each supplying a necessary part of the trust stack.
Role
- 2012Operations & internal tools
- 2015–19Software → senior engineer
- 2023+Principal / staff architect
Systems
- 2012Linux hosting, TCP/IP & operations
- 2015–19Concurrent APIs, containers & registrar services
- 2019+Multi-region RDAP / WHOIS & distributed state
Protocols
- 2012+DNS, HTTP & TLS
- 2015+EPP & registrar APIs
- 2019+RDAP, PKI & ACME
Security & governance
- 2019+Privacy & GDPR controls
- 2023+Security certification
- 2023+Trust-boundary architecture
Industry
- 2015+Registrar policy implementation
- 2019+IETF & ICANN interoperability
- 2026+AAIF working groups
2026+ · Convergence
Autonomous-agent identity & trust
Architecture for agents that must be discoverable, provable, interoperable, and safe across organizational boundaries.
NamingAgent Name Service
DiscoveryDNS-AID & SVCB records
IdentityProof of control & verifiable trust
SpecificationMajor ANS protocol ownership
ImplementationGoDaddy RA & transparency log
GovernanceLinux Foundation & AAIF participation
Current focus · open source, specification & implementation leadership
Throughline
The same hard problem, at widening scope
Each stage increased the radius of trust: from operating individual systems, to building concurrent registrar services, to governing multi-region registration data, to designing identity and discovery mechanisms that work across the open internet.