Savvas Bout is a Founder and CEO in the digital infrastructure space with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He leads a number of businesses that turn capacity and hardware into scalable platforms for customers. Savvas has a background in network design and build, data center development, automation, and product strategy, with a focus on building long-term performing infrastructure.
Founder of Netrouting — a global provider of bare metal servers and cloud hosting, advanced connectivity options, and intelligent automation. He is also the founder of Data Facilities, operator of a 3.5 MW carrier-neutral colocation facility in the Netherlands. Savvas founded Prefixx, the market leader for brokerage of IPv4 and AS numbers, and more recently the open initiative LSIX for the Netherlands. Throughout his companies he focuses on infrastructure that is cost-effective, efficient, and predictable at scale.
Over 20 years of IT experience focused on designing and implementing data center network architecture, strategic hardware purchases, pricing models, capacity planning, automation, and long-term strategic platform engineering. He also served in a leadership role at ColoHouse and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty, helping clients find world-class hosting and data center solutions.
Savvas is responsible for expanding Netrouting's global footprint, developing and releasing IaaS-type infrastructure with deep automation, and integrating Netrouting's network, compute, and facilities. On this blog he covers topics related to building out digital infrastructure, running bare-metal and cloud hybrid platforms, colocation and interconnection, and lessons learned operating infrastructure in production.
Editorial integrity. Last updated: April 2026. This profile is reviewed periodically to reflect current roles, initiatives, and published infrastructure insights.
