Alexander Clouter is an experienced Director and hands-on engineering leader with 26 years building and scaling resilient software and infrastructure for clients without giant budgets. He blends deep systems and network administration skills with polyglot development, contributing to notable open-source projects like Wireshark and FreeRADIUS (EAP/TEAP/PEAP work) and improving Erlang/OTP and Prebid.js modules. As a consultant and former Head of Infrastructure, he specializes in turning messy, high-pressure environments into collaborative teams that ship prototypes, MVPs and market-ready products across multi-cloud and bare-metal deployments. He pairs a pragmatic technical approach—tcpdump, strace and code fixes—with commercial acumen in productisation, licensing and fraud investigation, having driven rapid revenue for ad-tech experiments. Clients value his emphasis on teaching teams to avoid common pitfalls so solutions can be iterated quickly and resources aren’t wasted on dead ends. Based in the UK with a physics degree from Imperial College, he combines systems-level curiosity with product-focused delivery.
26 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Imperial College London
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:19 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander made several contributions to the Prebid.js repository, primarily focused on enhancing the Adloox analytics and real-time data (RTD) modules. They added and updated features within the `adlooxAnalyticsAdapter.js` and `adlooxRtdProvider.js` files, implementing functionality to integrate with the Adloox platform. These changes included support for new macros, improved page URL retrieval, and the modification of targeting data handling. Additionally, the user worked on integrating these modules within the existing framework and updated example code.
Contributions:55 commits, 33 PRs, 49 comments in 13 years
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the FreeRADIUS server project by implementing enhancements to the EAP-FAST module, specifically adding support for translating challenges within the `rlm_eap_gtc` module. The user also addressed a filename issue in a Debian patch and refactored code by replacing `talloc_size` with `talloc_array` and refactoring `openssl_get_keyblock_size`. Furthermore, the user made several code improvements by qualifying the enum macros and const flips.
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