Alex Olivier
Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Olivier is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience who co-founded Cerbos to simplify authorization for modern DevOps by decoupling access control into a centralized control plane. He combines early enterprise experience at Microsoft and Qubit with hands-on technical leadership—moving platforms to cloud, driving compliance, and negotiating multi-million dollar deals—to help companies scale securely and sell to enterprise customers. As CPO he focuses on deterministic, auditable authorization that materially reduces developer time-to-value, with customers reporting major latency and productivity gains. He also advises startups and has run freelance engagements building roadmaps, modern tech stacks, and product teams, giving him a pragmatic founder’s perspective on bootstrapping and product-market fit. Based in London, Alex is active in standards work through the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN group, helping make fine-grained authorization interoperable across the ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) + DPS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) + DPS Computer Science at Loughborough University
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
browser10
credit-card10
api10
home-automation10
finance10
policies10
nodejs10
react-router10
mongodb10
react-apollo10
privacy10
python10
converting10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
cerbos/express-workos-cerbos
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 1 month
alexolivier/refine
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
A React-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Contributions:219 PRs, 235 pushes, 235 branches in 2 years 9 months
reactinternalframeworkinternal-toolstypescript
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