Alexander Ager

• AI-driven penetration testing: core engineer across the full stack of an internal platform that uses AI agents to security-test LSEG systems. Built agent orchestration that runs in tightly sandboxed, egress-controlled environments with a full audit trail of every action.
• Bug bounties: found high-severity vulnerabilities in internal bug-bounty hunts using the platform.
• Incident response: drove major efficiency gains in agentic dependency audit tooling used during supply-chain incidents - rapidly identifying affected packages at scale, then automating build-log investigation to confirm which versions actually executed.
• Governance automation: one of the primary engineers automating architecture design review - an agent drafts design documents from a team's own codebase, and Rego policy-as-code flags violations deterministically.
• Agent platform: architected a greenfield agentic AI platform for the cybersecurity organisation (TypeScript monorepo, custom agent harness, MCP servers) with RBAC and per-session sandboxing.

Won LSEG's flagship graduate project and a prominent internal hackathon; regularly present on AI to audiences of hundreds of senior engineers; selected to reverse-mentor the Executive Committee (ExCo) on AI.

• Third-party security assessment: led proof-of-concept testing of three vulnerability scanner vendors in a multi-million pound procurement. Designed functional and non-functional test cases, rebuilt a production-equivalent network environment, and surfaced undocumented flaws, ultimately saving hundreds of thousands of pounds by informing the final selection.
• Secure multi-party computation: collaborated with Airbus' senior cryptography expert to design and implement MPC protocols using open-source MPC toolkits, enabling privacy-preserving analytics across geographically separated data sets governed by export-control regulations. Learned C++ to deliver the project.
• Business continuity & compliance: authored a departmental BCP including a full Business Impact Analysis, covering critical function mapping, threat modelling, and regulatory alignment.

• Applied inverse kinematics algorithms to program industrial robotic arms, and resolved blocking technical issues. Co-authored a resulting academic paper.