Gareth Glaser
Owner Author at Gareth Hates Ad Tech
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Glaser is a New York–based founder and product leader with six years of focused experience building transparent programmatic advertising infrastructure and advocating for an open internet. He’s launched and led multiple companies—most recently Gareth Hates Ad Tech and Gamera, Inc.—after co-founding and exiting RTK.io and helping steer industry standards as PMC Chair for Prebid.js at Prebid.org. Known for marrying product strategy with deep ad-tech domain expertise, he builds systems and organizations that prioritize transparency, fair billing, and interoperable open-source tooling. His background in English, Chinese, and philosophy/politics/economics from the University of Pennsylvania informs a communicative, contrarian approach to complex technical and industry problems. Notably, he has repeatedly turned opaque ad-tech practices into marketable, standards-driven solutions that attracted acquisition and industry-wide adoption.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Capital Normal UniversityBachelor of Arts English Chinese Philosophy/Politics/Economics, Bachelor of Arts English Chinese Philosophy/Politics/Economics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
header-bidding10
advertising10
prebid10
server-side6
nodejs5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
prebid/Prebid.js
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
prebid/prebid.github.io
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Repo that controls Prebid.org website
Contributions:4 comments in 1 day
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