C. Snitker

Connor Snitker

Principal Engineer · Internet Infrastructure & Security

Last updated August 2026

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Professional Summary

Principal Engineer and internet systems/security architect with 14+ years building and operating critical infrastructure at GoDaddy. Deep foundation in TCP/IP, sockets, DNS, HTTP/TLS, Linux, concurrent programming, distributed systems, multi-region services, containers, PKI, performance, and production reliability. Leads architecture and specification work for ANS and GoDaddy's RDAP/WHOIS platform, applying that systems depth to autonomous-agent identity, trust, and enforceable safeguards.

Experience

Principal Engineer — Agent Name Service & Security Architecture

Jun 2016 — Present
GoDaddy
  • -Lead architecture and specification work for Agent Name Service across registration, identity, discovery, PKI, transparency, verification semantics, and client SDKs.
  • -Designed GoDaddy's ANS Registration Authority architecture and API contract; authored its transparency-log implementation and the public HCS-27 checkpoint specification.
  • -Lead the public ANS open-source effort and Linux Foundation intent-to-donate work, aligning normative specifications, reference implementations, conformance, and release readiness.
  • -Participate directly in Agentic AI Foundation technical meetings and working groups, contributing Internet naming, identity, security, and interoperability experience to the open-agent ecosystem.
  • -Built security-critical ANS controls spanning proof-of-control identity, challenge-bound JWS verification, replay and TOCTOU protections, fail-closed state transitions, revocation, and Merkle-log evidence.
  • -Lead architect for GoDaddy's authoritative RDAP/WHOIS platform across its registrar portfolio and a lead engineer on the Domains API and broader registrar platform.
  • -Architect and implement high-throughput networked services in Go and Rust across Linux, containerized, and multi-region environments, with emphasis on concurrency, latency, partial failure, idempotency, observability, and operational simplicity.
  • -Led technical implementation of GDPR requirements across registrar systems and serve as a company security certifier and architecture reviewer.
  • -Serve on the Domains Architecture Review Committee and Tools Tech Radar, and as a Cloud Readiness Reviewer, security certifier, and core-technology interviewer.

Software Engineer I & II — Registrar Services / TLDs

Jun 2015 — Jun 2016
GoDaddy
  • -Built foundational backend services, web APIs, and integrations across Java, C#, and C++.
  • -Engineered a high-performance contact API supporting registrar workflows.
  • -Designed and implemented the department's first production CI/CD workflow using SaltStack and Docker.

Hosting Support / Internal Tools Administrator

May 2012 — Jun 2015
GoDaddy
  • -Built a systems foundation in TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/TLS, Linux and Windows hosting, OS-level troubleshooting, and production incident response.
  • -Built and maintained a C# REST API used by multiple production applications.
  • -Served as technical lead, coach, and mentor across multiple support teams.

Standards & Protocol Design

  • HCS-14 ANS Profile / HCS-27 (Author)Defined cross-ecosystem ANS resolution and consensus-anchored transparency checkpoints.
  • Agent Name Service (Open-source lead / specification owner)Leads public engineering and major specification work as ANS moves toward Linux Foundation governance; leads GoDaddy's ANS Registration Authority and authored its transparency-log implementation.
  • DNS-AID Internet-Draft (Acknowledged contributor)Active draft for DNS-based agent discovery using SVCB records.
  • IETF REGEXT / ICANNParticipation in global registrar infrastructure protocol extensions.
  • Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)Active participant in technical meetings and working groups focused on open, interoperable agent infrastructure.
  • Linux Foundation / LFDTANS open-governance and project-readiness work for the announced intent to launch under Linux Foundation stewardship.

Core Competencies

Systems EngineeringTCP/IP, sockets, HTTP/TLS, Linux, concurrent programming, distributed state, multi-region architecture, high-throughput services, performance engineering.
Security & CryptographySecurity architecture, trust boundaries, PKI/X.509, ACME, applied cryptography, authentication/authorization, proof of control, JWS/COSE, Merkle transparency.
Internet InfrastructureDNS, RDAP, WHOIS, EPP, SVCB/HTTPS records, registrar/registry systems, authoritative registration data, protocol interoperability.
Resilience & OperabilityPartial failure, retries, idempotency, failure isolation, backpressure, caching and state, observability, incident response, capacity and cost awareness.
Infrastructure & DeliveryContainers, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Rancher, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Jenkins, SaltStack, deployment and release systems.
Languages & DesignGo, Rust, Python, C++, Java, C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash; protocol/API design, state machines, migration strategy, technical governance.