Alexander Lyon

Alexander Lyon is an open-source engineer and Rust specialist with deep experience in build systems, compilers, and high-performance infrastructure. At Vercel, he ported Turborepo to Rust and contributed to Turbopack and Next.js. As a contract engineer for Meta, he helped open-source Buck2. He also maintains async-stripe, the leading Rust bindings for the Stripe API, with nearly 2 million downloads.

Through his consulting practice, he served as first engineer at MDisrupt, architecting the platform from prototype, and built an automated pipeline for STL Solutions that generated £1M in three months.

A first-class honours CS graduate from Heriot-Watt, Google Summer of Code alum, and active Rust ecosystem contributor, Alexander brings developer-grade infrastructure expertise to The Ad Spend.