Thierry graduated in business cum laude with honours from Erasmus university. At the age of 14 he started his first profitable site and discovered a passion for technology. Before founding Stream together with Tommaso, he co-founded Fashiolista. Which grew to be one of the world's largest social networks for fashion. He's the author of several widely used Python packages including Stream Framework and Django-facebook. He currently has more than 5 years of experience with managing technology companies.
Co-Founder/ CEO @ Stream (Techstars NYC 15) is a new kind of data store designed for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. Stream uses big data and machine learning to improve how information is connected and discovered online. The company is founded by the authors of the popular open source Stream-Framework, which has over 250,000 downloads.
More than 500,000 apps are still building and maintaining their own feed technology. All these companies go through the same struggle and reinvent the same technology. Stream enables developers to build feeds in days instead of months. Feeds are intelligently aggregated and re-ranked based on relevancy.
Stream came out of BETA in February. We're now approaching 100 companies that have integrated Stream and are relying on our API. Several larger companies are currently integrating. Our angel investors include the founders of Crashlytics, the head of developer experience at Twitter, the founders of KeenIO, the CTO of HubSpot and the CTO of Thomson Reuters. From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsCo-Founder/ CTO @ Fashiolista is a social network aimed at fashion. We've raised funding from Atomico Ventures (VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström - Skype) and high profile Dutch investors.
At Fashiolista I was responsible for:
Product development, social media integration, software development, team management, technical direction, application scaling and recruiting. From May 2010 to July 2014 (4 years 3 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsSenior software engineer and co-owner @ After my work on software development was featured on a large international site I was approach by several startups and companies. One of those companies was a promising start up in The Netherlands. The startup was in early stages and I chose to invest and become a partner in YouTellMe during November 2007. At YouTellMe I've had the chance to combine my experience in both software development and business administration. YouTellMe pivoted and became Fashiolista. From November 2007 to December 2010 (3 years 2 months) Management trainee @ - Enriching cultural experience (visited Romania)
- Worked and both SME and consumer risk division
- Consumer risk division: followed the company’s management training program
- SME department: performed credit analysis, analyzed the quality of the Corporate and SME rating methodologies and improved reporting procedures. From July 2007 to September 2007 (3 months) 2nd place Erasmus Strategic Business Plan competition @ - Written a detailed business plan for a complicated high tech company, Kipp & Zonen.
- Rewarded 2nd place out of over 250 teams
- Received very positive feedback from the CEO, claiming the plan was more thorough than previous research done by Arthur D Little. Business plan points were subsequently implemented.
- Erasmus University used this business plan as a guideline for students in the following year. From January 2005 to January 2006 (1 year 1 month)
BScBA - Cum laude, International business administration @ Erasmus University Rotterdam From 2005 to 2008 VWO @ Johan de Witt Gymnasium From 1999 to 2005 Thierry Schellenbach is skilled in: Web Development, Django, Symfony, Entrepreneurship, JavaScript, Python, PHP, CSS, HTML, jQuery, XML, MySQL, AJAX, HTML5, SQL
Websites:
http://www.mellowmorning.com,
http://www.fashiolista.com