John Hout
Co-Founder & CTO at Yasu
Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohn 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
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Github Skills (104)
api-platform10
mercure10
hypermedia10
hubspot10
openapi10
composer10
conventional-commits10
laravel10
stream10
api10
rest10
scaffold10
symfony-bundle10
git-hooks10
jamstack10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fastvoid/laravel-dutch-validation
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Laravel dutch validation translation file.
Contributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
translation-validationvalidationtranslationphplaravel
johnhout/johnhout
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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