Experience

Elijah Glover. Principal Engineer.

2026 to present

Showing owners how AI assistants find their business and where their systems are exposed, then building what they choose to fix.

• Built agentic security loops supporting production systems, clearing vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Built the controls around them. Agents are sandboxed to the repo, calls are routed across model providers and private models with spend tracked per job, and personal data and secrets are stripped before a prompt leaves. A better model can replace the current one the week it ships.
• Ran security releases across client websites, blocking exploits at the edge until each fix shipped.
• Hardened a client’s edge to tell AI agents from abusive bots. Scraping and booking-form abuse stopped, and assistants could still find the business.

Optus Sport. Principal CDN Engineer.

2021 to 2025

Proposed rebuilding Optus Sport’s video delivery network and led the engineering. Sat on the Optus Sport Networks steering committee.

• Delivered the 8 Tbps in-house CDN, which replaced the legacy fleet in 2023 and carried Optus Sport and Fetch TV.
• Led the traffic router that ran it alongside Akamai, CloudFront and Fastly as one service.
• Ran it with a core team of two through five Premier League seasons and six major tournaments, without losing a fixture to a CDN failure. The Optus CFO commended it for cost efficiency.
• Advised Optus Networks on HTTP/3, which helped Optus decide to retire zero-rating on legacy plans.

NSW Health Lumos. Program Architect.

2017 to 2021

Architected Lumos for NSW Health’s Centre for Health Record Linkage, the first Australian program to link GP clinical data with government health data. It still ships twice a year without the team that built it.

• Took it from early research to statewide production under budget, with a development team I hired.
• Built linkage that encodes patient identifiers inside each practice before any data leaves. It passed review by Curtin University and a Salinger Privacy assessment.
• Completed the automation behind NSW Health’s daily master linkage, used for public-health work through COVID-19.
• Won the 2022 NSW Health Award for Health Research and Innovation, and helped inspire the national primary and acute care data linkage program.

Section.io. Principal Engineer.

2015 to 2016

Principal engineer at a CDN and edge startup, later acquired by Webscale.

• Onboarded retailers including Temple & Webster, Adore Beauty, Lorna Jane and Princess Polly, and ran their Click Frenzy peaks.
• Moved the container-based edge to Kubernetes with the team, before AWS or Azure offered it managed.

Readify and TheFARM Digital. Consultant and Tech Lead.

2011 to 2015

• At Readify, led the team that took HOYTS Cinemas’ corporate ticketing platform from proof of concept to production.
• Led the overhaul of Cancer Institute NSW’s iCanQuit, moved its hosting to eHealth NSW, and trained its developers to run it.
• Before Readify, led TheFARM Digital’s engineering team.