Elliot Jackson

Elliot Jackson is a software engineer working in the defence sector. For more than a decade, he has built high-reliability software for demanding environments, from early-stage products to systems used by millions. He specialises in critical systems across fintech and defence, where correctness, performance, and uptime matter.

High-reliability systems

Elliot has designed banking APIs, multi-node clusters, real-time trading infrastructure, and a distributed Layer 2 orderbook and matching engine.

Distributed data analytics

He designed and built a distributed analytics engine and high-throughput ingestion engine, turning billions of events into usable insight.

Applied AI

He has worked on automated network-level reverse-engineering, agentic bug-to-pr tooling, image and video segmentation, hybrid search and sentiment analysis.

Open source and writing

Elliot maintains more than 25 open-source libraries (193,813+ downloads) across Elixir, Rust, and TypeScript, covering search, metrics, ingestion, data structures, and developer tooling. He has also published more than 70 technical articles.

Independent projects

Objectively is a zero-config native macOS app that runs a fully S3-compatible local object storage server, complete with project isolation, a live request feed, and an object browser.

He also builds other small software products and developer tools across the Apple, Android and web ecosystems.

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