Summary
John Hout is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on software engineering and startup experience, currently building an Agentic AI Cloud Engineer that helps companies cut cloud waste and save over 30% on AWS, GCP, and Azure bills. He combines deep practical experience leading engineering teams and consulting across agencies and product startups with a founder’s knack for productizing technical efficiency. Past roles span founding engineer and lead software positions where he shipped ML-driven and web-scale solutions, from predictive eye-tracking to neuro-tech hiring tools. Selected for Antler’s competitive EIR program, he pairs entrepreneurial rigor with technical leadership and a strong focus on cloud cost optimization. Based in Gouda, Netherlands, he brings a designer’s background and pragmatic engineering discipline to building automated cloud cost control systems. An understated trait: he blends creative product sensibilities from his multimedia design roots with data-driven infrastructure engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
international graphic multimedia design Multimedia design, international graphic multimedia design Multimedia design at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam