Thierry Schellenbach - Co-Founder CEO at Stream.io Inc

Thierry Schellenbach

Co-Founder CEO at Stream.io Inc - Techstars NY 2015

Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Thierry Schellenbach is a founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building scalable real-time infrastructure, currently leading Stream which powers activity feeds and chat for over a billion end users. He co-founded and scaled Fashiolista to millions of users and an eight-figure exit, and combines product-led growth instincts with hands-on technical leadership. An active open-source author, Thierry created widely used projects like Stream Framework, Django Facebook and the RSS reader Winds, and contributes to repos such as stream-chat-android and feed backend tooling. Technically fluent in Go, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin and React, he still ships code and architecture for both backend and mobile SDKs. A cum laude graduate from Erasmus University, he began building profitable web software at 14 — a signal of his longstanding entrepreneurial and engineering drive.

15 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

VWO, VWO at Johan de Witt- gymnasium

BScBA - Cum laude, International business administration, BScBA - Cum laude, International business administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam

English, Dutch, French

Github Skills (12)

kotlin10

back-end10

android-sdk10

backend10

django210

python10

back-end-development10

redis10

django10

cassandra9

javas8

java8

Programming languages (13)

MDXC#JavaGoHTMLKotlinTypeScriptJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

tschellenbach/Stream-Framework

Aug 2012 - Dec 2019

Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:744 commits, 10 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Thierry primarily contributed to the development of the backend of the system, focusing on features related to the core feed functionality. Their work involved the implementation of love functionality, which included adding and removing activities. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the Django framework and interaction with Redis for caching. Additionally, the user worked on setting up the Cassandra database connection.

pythonstreamsactivity-feedstreamnews

GetStream/stream-chat-android

Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

:speech_balloon: Android Chat SDK ➜ Stream Chat API. UI component libraries for chat apps. Kotlin & Jetpack Compose messaging SDK for Android chat

Role in this project:

Mobile Developer (Android)

Contributions:36 releases, 110 reviews, 991 commits in 1 year 7 months

Contributions summary:Thierry's commits focused on improving the storage and fetching logic within the Android chat SDK. This involved modifications to data models, and database interaction. Changes include improved thread and read-state handling in the SDK's components.

balloonandroid-chat-sdkcomposestreamstream-chat

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