Anjali Khan

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CTO at Glade AI · Real-time systems · Go, Elixir

Glade AI
Cambridge, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
10+ years experience
UCL
English
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Overview

I've spent 22 years on real-time systems - first at Morgan Stanley, now at Glade AI. Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Workday and BT Group. Most at home with Go and Redis. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
ElixirWebSocketsRedisBurp SuiteGo
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Building out real-time at Glade AI: backend engineers wanted in Cambridge

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$142k-$184k
Team
Real-time, 15 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with WebSockets Production experience with Burp Suite Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp £85k-£122k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Cambridge, UKrediswebsocketsburp suite
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Glade AI · 9 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 6.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
    Workday · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
    • Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  3. Software Engineer
    Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
    BT Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 45% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 360ms to 119ms.
  4. Staff Software Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
    Sainsbury's · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
    • Shipped 11 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
    • Moved 65% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. UCL
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2004

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