Running infrastructure that can't afford to break, and helping companies own theirs.

Principal engineer across content delivery, edge & regulated data. Designed and led the 8 Tbps in-house CDN at Optus Sport through the Premier League, UEFA EURO and the FIFA Women's World Cup, without losing a fixture to a CDN failure. Before that, architected NSW Health Lumos, the first Australian program to link GP data with government health data.

Experience

CDN, edge and regulated data: systems where failure is the news rather than a ticket. Scale opens the door. What gets checked after that is whether the thing outlived the people who built it.

2026 to present

Elijah Glover. Principal Engineer.

Built agentic security loops, and the controls around them, supporting production systems. Edge defences that let AI agents in and keep scrapers out.

2021 to 2025

Optus Sport. Principal CDN Engineer.

Proposed and led the in-house CDN that replaced the legacy fleet in 2023, run by a core team of two. Commended by the Optus CFO for cost efficiency.

2017 to 2021

NSW Health Lumos. Program Architect.

Took Lumos from early research to statewide production, under budget. It won the 2022 NSW Health Award for Health Research and Innovation.

2015 to 2016

Section.io. Principal Engineer.

Brought Australian retailers onto the edge platform and ran their peak sales events. Later acquired by Webscale.

2011 to 2015

Readify and TheFARM Digital. Consultant and Tech Lead.

Delivered HOYTS Cinemas' corporate ticketing platform and the overhaul of Cancer Institute NSW's iCanQuit, then handed both to the client teams.

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Writing

Essays on what I have built, what I have seen, and what I think happens next.

The Pipeline Was the Attack

On 31 March 2026 a poisoned axios release went up on npm, and the machinery the industry built to keep itself patched delivered it to 895 repositories before anyone woke up. CISA's advice afterwards was to add seven days of latency. Microsoft's was to turn the bots off. Both are right, and the distance between them is the only decision left: security is a loop now, and the whole job is choosing what delay you set on it.

14th September 2026 · 13 min read

The Option to Abandon

An agent is the most confident refiner ever built, and refinement is not invention. Real invention means walking away from something that works, and whether your organisation can afford that walk is set in infrastructure nobody thinks of as a decision. The tools are now the same for everyone. What they let you do is not.

25th August 2026 · 11 min read

The Audit Is Already Scheduled

A breach notice by SMS and a ministerial reply about the largest education breach on record, inside the same month, and neither contains a sentence the recipient can verify: the party that knows what was taken is never the one writing to you. An audit is not a badge you receive; it is a question you put to your own systems. If your customers' data sits in stacks you rent, the involuntary version is already scheduled.

28th July 2026 · 14 min read

Bytes Don't Pay The Rent

Five years inside the CDN buy. Premium live is where the per-GB question runs out. The serious end of streaming already built their own capacity. Here's what the bill is telling everyone else.

1st June 2026 · 7 min read

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Based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Australian citizen, eligible for security clearance. Open to permanent and contract roles.

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