Nathan Elvery
Group Product Manager (News) at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Elvery is a product leader with 15 years’ experience building digital products at the intersection of technology, media and social change, currently serving as Group Product Manager for ABC News. He combines hands-on engineering collaboration—evidenced by back-end contributions to the Silverstripe framework—with strategic ownership of news products reaching millions of Australians. Previously he scaled engagement and email platforms at Change.org, growing the Australian user base from tens of thousands to millions and managing email programs for a 300M+ global audience. Nathan is skilled in product management, user engagement, experimentation and cross-functional team leadership across editorial, engineering and marketing. He brings a track record of translating campaigning and public affairs expertise into product features that drive real-world impact and media attention. Based in Queensland, he blends technical curiosity with newsroom instincts to evolve trusted digital news experiences.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Public Health (part complete), Bachelor of Public Health (part complete) at Queensland University of Technology
Github Skills (7)
php10
silverstripe10
image-processing10
logging9
internationalization9
validations8
validation8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Aug 2011 - Feb 2013
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Silverstripe Framework. Their work included addressing issues in data object extensions, GeoIP integration, and image handling. Furthermore, the user added a utility function to retrieve country names from codes and made code improvements to image resizing, logging, and validation processes. They also made code enhancements in the area of internationalization and localization.
cmsmvc-frameworksilverstripe
abcnews/interactive-expandable-cards
Feb 2023 - Aug 2025
Groups of expandable "winners and losers"-style cards that can be embedded in stories.
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
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