About Transloadit

Transloadit is an MPaaS (Media Processing as a Service) for developers. Companies integrate with us to automate workflows of video encoding, image resizing, and much more.

Transloadit was bootstrapped in 2009 by three engineers hailing from Berlin and Amsterdam.

Since we met through open source and had to work remotely from day one, these principles are deeply ingrained as values in our company’s culture and DNA. To this day, we are remote-only, and we allocate $34,666 of our revenue each month to supporting open source development and fostering its communities. Our open source projects, Tus and Uppy, are changing the way the world handles file uploads.

As a teammate, you’ll find that open, remote, friendly, and curious are words that describe our company’s culture well. Much of our focus is on employee satisfaction. As we see it, this is what allows us to create the best products. Along with our guiding principles of secure, robust, performant, and versatile, this has paid off in uptime and customer satisfaction over the past fifteen years.

But we always strive to be better. So, together with 12 Transloadians, we work relentlessly to grow, nurture, and mature our company and the value it can bring into this world. Here are some of the milestone achievements that are particularly dear to us:

Transloadit: a Swiss Army Knife for files

Transloadit has a lot to offer. Unique to Transloadit is its wide array of features, and their LEGO-like composability. A few examples:

Input

Handling uploads

• Handle uploads

File importing

• Azure
• Backblaze
• Rackspace Cloud Files
• Cloudflare R2
• DigitalOcean Spaces
• Dropbox
• FTP servers
• Google Storage
• Web servers
• MinIO
• Amazon S3
• SFTP servers
• Supabase
• Openstack/Swift
• Tigris
• Wasabi
• Many others via Zapier

Process

Video encoding

• Convert videos to HLS and MPEG-Dash
• Concatenate videos
• Transcode, resize, or watermark videos
• Merge video, audio, images into one video
• Stream videos with on-demand encoding
• Add subtitles to videos
• Extract thumbnails from videos

Audio encoding

• Extract or insert audio artwork
• Concatenate audio
• Encode audio
• Loop audio
• Merge audio files into one
• Generate waveform images from audio

Image manipulation

• Remove the background from images
• Merge several images into one image
• Optimize images without quality loss
• Convert, resize, or watermark images

Artificial intelligence

• Recognize text in documents (OCR)
• Recognize objects in images
• Detect faces in images
• Generate images from text prompts
• Recognize text in images (OCR)
• Transcribe speech in audio or video files
• Synthesize speech in documents
• Translate text in documents

Document processing

• Auto-rotate documents
• Convert documents into different formats
• Merge documents into one
• Extract pages from a document
• Extract thumbnail images from documents
• Read file contents
• Take screenshots of webpages or HTML files

File filtering

• Filter files
• Verify the file type
• Scan files for viruses

Code evaluation

• Run scripts in Assemblies

Media cataloging

• Hash files
• Generate a preview thumbnail
• Write metadata to media

File compressing

• Compress files
• Decompress archives

Output

File exporting

• Microsoft Azure
• Backblaze
• Rackspace Cloud Files
• Cloudflare R2
• DigitalOcean Spaces
• Dropbox
• FTP servers
• Google Storage
• MinIO
• Amazon S3
• SFTP servers
• Supabase
• OpenStack/Swift
• Tigris
• Tus-compatible servers
• Vimeo
• Wasabi
• YouTube
• Many others via Zapier

Content delivery

• Serve files to web browsers

The Transloadit Team

Transloadit is brought to you by a small team of full-time developers and supported by a widespread network of passionate experts and freelancers. Please meet our team, in order of appearance:

Team

Kevin van Zonneveld — Co-founder

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Before co-founding Transloadit, Kevin worked as the research & development lead for a hosting company in Amsterdam. In that capacity, he was in charge of automating business and sysadmin efforts. He also designed web infrastructure for its customers. His expertise on scalability was put to good use in the construction of Transloadit's highly available platform. Kevin continues to improve our back-end as we expand and also loves to engage in product development and innovation. You can check out his blog where he likes to muse about coding and distributed systems.

Tim Koschützki — Co-founder

Berlin, Germany

Tim is a skilled programmer with close to 20 years of experience in web and application development. Partway through his career, he became a core contributor to the CakePHP framework. Tim wears many hats here at Transloadit. This includes working on our API services, Robots and scaling algorithms, supervising customer support, handling customer billing, and much more. Tim has a passion for German Engineering™, which is reflected clearly in his work for Transloadit and his open source projects. Outside the digital world, Tim is also a licensed pyrotechnician. So when he's not causing fireworks on your screen, he can often be found creating spectacular displays that light up the skies.

Marius Kleidl — Software Engineer

Munich, Germany

Marius is a software engineer from Munich, Germany, who holds an MSc in Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence. He is as thorough in his work as he is quick in picking up new technology, and is often the one taking on the bigger challenges that we face. His main focus at Transloadit is tus.io, our open protocol for resumable file uploads that continues to gain more traction every day. When there is no coding to be done, Marius likes to spend as much time as he can in or around the water, whether it is sailing, rowing or swimming.

A.J. van Loon — Writer and Editor

Leiden, The Netherlands

A.J. obtained a Master’s degree cum laude in Ancient History from Leiden University, specializing in Ancient Egyptian Criminal Law. He has a great love for languages – ancient and modern alike – and has bilingual proficiency in Dutch and English. A.J. currently works as a freelance writer and translator under his own company, Aemulans Writing and Editing. Besides that, he also runs a thesis correction and editing service called Scriptieman. At Transloadit, A.J. makes sure that everything we share with the outside world, be it through our website or any other medium, is able to meet the highest standard.

Alexander Zaytsev — Designer

Dnipro, Ukraine

Alexander is a designer with a passion for showing information in the most clear and accessible way. He loves making beautiful interfaces and writing HTML and CSS. He is fascinated by everything concerning public transportation and enjoys working on design projects related to this topic. Show Alex something done badly and he will be itching to improve it. Take the old tram network map of his hometown Dnipro, for instance. Alex completely redesigned it and his version is now in official use.

Peter Assentorp — Designer

Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter is a self-taught designer and front-end developer who started building websites some twenty years ago. The first was for his own Counter-Strike clan, but other projects from friends and online acquaintances soon followed. This experience eventually landed him a position as a web designer with a small agency. After having worked in the employ of various companies for many years, Peter now performs his craft as a freelancer. Besides working on web design, Peter also runs Sportmonda.com, a small startup that sells custom football kits, and a project called SocialSizes.io offering designers sizes and templates for most popular social networks. In his spare time, Peter likes to play football (soccer) and computer games (CS:GO).

Mikael Finstad — Developer

Norway

Mikael is a software creator and consultant from Oslo, Norway. His love of making new things is rooted in the strong belief that software should be available to everyone. In his continued quest to improve the selection and quality of open source apps out there, he has already created various cool projects like LosslessCut, editly, and SimpleInstaBot. Apart from being a creative force on the digital plane, Mikael is also an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking, exploring and photographing the wonderful world around us. Check out his website for some of his amazing work. At Transloadit, Mikael works on modernizing our JS stack and adding many awesome features.

Joseph Grabski — Content Lead

Rochester, United Kingdom

Joseph is an indie game developer and student from Rochester, England, who is currently in the process of completing a degree in Computer Science. He occasionally participates in game jams where contestants have limited time to build a game from scratch. Check out some of his projects on his itch.io creator page. When Joseph is not creating games, you can find him playing the guitar, bass, and piano, tinkering with his music or obsessing over guitar pedals. He also never misses a chance to play CS:GO with his friends and humiliate them with his superior skills. As Content Lead, Joseph is constantly on the lookout for interesting topics to write about, and helps to shine a light on Transloadit's vast array of services.

Merlijn Vos — Developer

Barcelona, Spain

Merlijn is a user-centric web designer specialized in front-end development with a degree in Communications & Multi Media Design. He’s passionate about ethical engineering; making the web accessible for everyone, applying progressive enhancement, and using custom linters to catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing. Merlijn’s endless curiosity pushes him to always keep learning more. In his spare time, he helps maintain the open source unified ecosystem as a core team member and he also enjoys a good game of chess. At Transloadit, Merlijn is part of the Uppy team, but he lends a hand on the back-end side of things whenever he can.

Prasanth Elangovan — Security Engineer

Villupuram, India

Prasanth is a security super star from India with years of experience in infosec. He started out as a system administrator and web developer, before discovering his true vocation in cybersecurity. And it has been raining awards ever since: he is consistently ranked as a Top Security Researcher by various companies and counted himself among the Top 100 Hackers Worldwide in 2021. Prasanth has a passion for making and breaking things, which isn’t limited to his professional life – when he isn’t busy identifying and disclosing critical vulnerabilities, you can often find him on the cricket pitch making runs, or in the boxing ring breaking his opponents.

Cindy Koschützki — Chief Merchandise Officer and Event Manager

Berlin, Germany

Cindy is Transloadit’s Chief Merchandise Officer and Event Manager. She studied Cultural, Event and Media Management and has previously worked as an assistant at McKinsey & Company. As a ballet dancer since the age of three, she has graced stages internationally in dance and theater productions. In her leisure time, Cindy enjoys 18th-century reenactment, recreating period clothing and turning castles into lively period events. She also has a passion for sewing, embroidery, and quilting. Cindy has two kids and even ran a cat pension for two years! With her unique skillset and diverse interests, Cindy brings creativity and expertise to everything she does at Transloadit.

Remco Haszing — Front-end Developer

Veldhoven, The Netherlands

Remco is a software developer from the Netherlands with a great interest in open source and developer tooling. After completing his IT studies, where he focused on software engineering, he has put his skills to use working on various apps and platforms over the years. Remco is also a proud member of the unified collective, helping to maintain its large ecosystem of open-source projects. When he is not creating proper software solutions through high-quality code, Remco – besides being a staunch metalhead 🤘 – likes to play tabletop RPGs (Pathfinder & Starfinder) and video games (Minecraft & everything Nintendo). At Transloadit, Remco is devoted to keeping our website in great shape and upgrading the entire dev team's TypeScript expertise.

Hall of Famers

Artur Paikin — Front-end Developer and Interface Designer

London, UK

🏆 2015–2024: Taking Uppy from infancy to #1 and looking out for the team.

Artur is a web developer who cruises the canals of London on a narrowboat. He blogs about some of his adventures and used to host a podcast about living (or boating) in different countries and cultures. While living in New York, Artur used to frequent JavaScript meetups and gave a fun 10-minute talk about his home automation experiments. He enjoys interactive fiction and old-school text adventure games – 80 Days being his favorite – and likes to show off his rope-dangling skills in the high-school-era classic Worms Armageddon. At Transloadit, Artur was Uppy.io lead, working on the almighty and sleek file uploader for browsers.

Abdelhadi Khiati — Developer and Support Captain

Oran, Algeria

🏆 2016–2023: Porting our stack to Nix, moving from Jenkins to GHA

A late start notwithstanding – he only had his first PC at age 16 and first discovered the internet at 18 – Abdel has shown great passion and an apt mind for computer sciences. During his studies, he partook in Google’s Summer of Code, where he contributed to the FreeBSD kernel. Abdel loves engaging with infra, devops, and AI. Among numerous other accomplishments, Abdel played a vital role in the long process of porting our stack to Nix, moving from Jenkins to GHA. Even though he has now moved on, Abdel will always be part of the Transloadit Hall of Fame.

Renée Kooi — Developer

Groningen, The Netherlands

🏆 2017–2022: Transloadit integration in Uppy and reactification of our website

Renée is a talented developer who loves free software almost as much as they enjoy a good K-Pop song. They are one of the developers behind üWave, a collaborative listening platform that allows groups to create playlists in a democratic fashion. Renée likes to wind down by playing a few games of Age of Empires II and is also very active in the community that still surrounds this timeless RTS classic, most notably by writing programs that can analyze all the details of your recorded matches. At Transloadit, Renée was invaluable in nurturing the Uppy project from its early development and through its first major releases.

Julian Gruber — Back-end Developer

Munich, Germany

🏆 2019–2022: Spearheading development of many API features such as the /script/run Robot

Julian is a programmer residing in southern Germany, who besides simple and beautiful products, loves reading and the occasional meditation. He also plays the guitar in his Black Metal band, which is called Super Satan. It is said his hobbies include knitting and base jumping – but who can really say with a guy like Julian. In the past, Julian has worked for various Silicon Valley startups. During his time at Transloadit, he was able to fulfill his childhood dream of finally building some really cool and advanced robots. Beep boop!

Evgenia Karunus — Front-end Developer

Ufa, Russia

🏆 2019–2021: Uppy accessibility and reactification of our website

Evgenia started her programming career working on the back-end with Rails and Django, but shifted her focus to the Js world in the past few years. In her spare time, Evgenia works on her beloved pet project memcode.com, a spaced-repetition site for programming, physics and medicine. She also studied Creative Computing at Goldsmiths University in order to combine her coding cred with more theoretical subjects. At Transloadit, Evgenia contributed to improving Uppy’s accessibility and making our customer dashboard a pleasure to work with.

Ifedapo Olarewaju — Developer

Lagos, Nigeria

🏆 2016–2021: Firestarting Companion and about half of our integrations

Ifedapo is a software engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. He has worked as a consultant for many different startups and corporations, as a result of which he has been picking up many new skills in various technologies. He has considerable experience with Python, JavaScript, and Java. In his spare time, he loves picking up more technologies and he would like to launch more open source projects, as well as a startup of his own. You can check out Ife’s GitHub here. At Transloadit, Ife used to work on maintaining and modernizing all of our SDK’s. He was also part of the Uppy team as the lead dev of Uppy-server.

Elena Lape — Partnerships

Panama

🏆 2019–2020: Growing Transloadit through GitHub EduPack, hackathons, accelerator partnerships

Elena lived in a hacker house in Panama, where she spent her days eating weird fruit, exploring the rainforests around, teaching kids to code at a local NGO, and working with no distractions. She studied Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science at university, and preferred combining her passion in tech with business development through projects such as Hack the Burgh — Scotland's biggest 24h hackathon. She managed product partnerships at GitHub Education, where she grew the GitHub Student Developer Pack nearly five times.

Fahad Ibnay Heylaal — Front-end Developer

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

🏆 2014–2016: A shiny website

Fahad was the creator of Croogo, a member of Bower team and developer at True. In his spare time, he helped to improve Transloadit's front-end. Passionate about CSS and JavaScript, he was a rejuvenating influence on everything pertaining to the user interface of Transloadit and tus.io. Fahad was always eager to experiment with the latest technologies to produce great experiences for our users. When we needed smooth, we turned to Fahad.

Felix Geisendörfer — Co-founder

Berlin, Germany

🏆 2009–2014: Turning Transloadit from an idea into a ramen profitable company

Although he is by now an emeritus, Felix's contributions to Transloadit will continue to be felt for years to come. From 2009 until his departure in 2013, Felix was instrumental in taking what was merely a budding idea in our heads and transforming it into a profitable startup. He was one of the first contributors to Node.js and continues to work on various other open source projects. Felix is currently working as a contractor, developing software in Go. He remains involved with our team as an advisor and friend.