Aaron Elias

Software & Applied-AI Engineer

Summary

Software and applied-AI engineer who ships: the model, the backend, and the app people actually use. Focused on reliability, latency, and the failure modes demos skip.

Experience

  1. Junior Software Engineer · Monash University

    Apr 2026 – Present

    On the team building MoVA, an enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) AI platform for Monash University.

  2. Project Manager · Monash DeepNeuron

    Feb 2026 – Present

    Leading a team building a wearable AR memory assistant for memory-impaired individuals, driving the architecture behind a custom vector-memory store and a low-latency streaming voice pipeline.

  3. Optimised Computing Engineer · Monash DeepNeuron

    Jul 2025 – Present

    Built GridLock, a physics- and market-accurate microgrid simulator (AEMO-calibrated battery wear, FCAS, carbon pricing) with adversarial optimisation scenarios and an anti-cheat state allowlist, backed by a substantial test suite. It later became the engine behind Watt The Hack.

  4. Lead Engineer · MLAI (Contract)

    Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

    Led engineering for Watt The Hack: a PyPI-published simulation engine and a Kubernetes-native platform that securely runs untrusted competitor code on GKE, with egress lockdown and exfiltration auditing.

  5. Private Tutor & Learning Coach · Self-employed

    Dec 2022 – Present

    Coaching students in maths, programming, and study strategy, building individual learning plans with the same systems thinking I bring to engineering.

Skills

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Kubernetes
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloud (GCP / Cloudflare)
  • Applied LLMs / RAG

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