Job Snijders is an IP Development Engineer at NTT, where he analyses and architects NTT's Global IP Network (GIN) for future growth. He has been actively involved in the Internet community in an engineering and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & APRICOT, and in a number of community projects for over 10 years. Job is co-chair of the IETF GROW working group, founder & director of the NLNOG Foundation, vice president of PeeringDB, and Art Director & Curator for the OpenBSD project.
Job's special interests are BGP routing policy, BGP and RPKI-based routing security, and large-scale BGP deployments. He helps maintain several tools such as IRRd, rpki-client, OpenBGPD, irrtree, rtrsub, and irrexplorer, and is active in the IETF where he has co-authored or contributed to RFCs and Internet-Drafts.