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