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About Transloadit

Transloadit was founded in 2009 by a handful of ambitious engineers, hailing from Berlin and Amsterdam.

Six years later, we had already released a great deal of open source software and got debt-free, profitable and were (and still are to this day!) fully privately owned.

Since 2009, we have added thousands of automated system tests, integration tests and visual diffs. This has allowed us to make continuous progress, while at the same time ensuring the quality and consistency of our existing services.

Our scaling algorithm and custom Amazon EC2 agreements now allow us to engage up to 1500 machines at the same time. These servers are then ready to start encoding data within two minutes, in data centers spread across the globe. Our customers can either set a continental preference themselves or have us decide what would perform best, based upon the location of their end users.

Since its foundation, Transloadit has worked hard to build up and maintain a varied and satisfied customer base. Our customers range from relatively small, non-profit companies to large, well-known multinationals and they have all come to us with different desires and preferences.

Some customers integrate with us in order to have instant YouTube-like functionally, while remaining in full control of the content. Instead of dealing with the headaches of supporting odd codec stacks and running a scalable back-end, they let Transloadit worry about that. This allows them to free up resources and instead focus on what makes their apps stand out.

Other customers send us large batches of media that need to be optimized for various different platforms (browsers, iPad, Android, etc.). By utilizing our convenient presets and capacity, they are able to encode several months worth of content in just a few hours. Together, our customers have already converted over ten petabyte of combined data using our platform.

Everything we do here at Transloadit serves one greater purpose: providing the best possible user experience. In order to achieve this, we strive to continuously improve our scaling capacity, we take great care with regard to any security issues and concerns of our customers, we apply the same amount of dedication even when dealing with the 'edgiest' of edge cases and we aim to always support the latest formats.

Please take a look at our blog section, where we regularly write about these things and also offer any news or updates.

Transloadit: A Swiss Army knife for Files

Unique to Transloadit is its wide array of features. A few examples:

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 over 12 years of web development experience. Halfway through his career, he became a core contributor to the CakePHP framework. He wears many hats here at Transloadit. This includes working on our API services, bots and scaling algorithms, handling customer billing, and much more. Tim has a passion for German Engineering™, which is reflected clearly in his work for Transloadit and several of his open source projects.

Marius Kleidl — Back-end developer

Passau, Germany

Marius is a gifted young developer, who has been taking on some big challenges for us here at Transloadit. His latest projects include tus.io and the development of our Go SDK. He has also done extensive research on how to best utilize containers in our next-gen application stack. Marius is as thorough in his work as he is quick in picking up new technology. He can also often be found engaging with our customers to see how he can help them to best enjoy their Transloadit experience.

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.

Artur Paikin — Front-end developer and Interface designer

New York, USA

Artur is a web designer & developer, who enjoys having a good meal out on his balcony or at a park. He likes to experiment with growing food and is often working on his home automation robot, which also serves as a playground for picking up new technologies such as React. Artur is a traveler at heart and regularly writes about his adventures. He is a coffee aficionado and runs an occasional pop-up coffee shop that you might enjoy. For Transloadit, Artur is primarily working on Uppy, our next generation open source file uploader for web browsers.

Mark Masterson — iOS & macOS developer

Los Angeles, California, USA

Mark is a full-stack developer with a passion for the arts. Born and raised in New York and currently living in Los Angeles, Mark has been a part of several start-ups. He is self taught and keeps up with the fast-moving tech world by learning a newlanguage or technology whenever given the chance. When Mark isn’t programming, you can find him lost in music or a movie. After starting out as a consumer of the tus project, he quickly began to maintain TUSKit, the tus iOS SDK. Mark has also released TransloaditKit, the brand new iOS/macOs SDK.

Abdelhadi Khiati — Developer and Support captain

Oran, Algeria

Abdel is currently taking his Master’s degree in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. He already has ample experience developing and writing various kinds of software, from web APIs to robotics software, and is currently partaking in Google Summer Of Code, where he is working on the FreeBSD kernel. Abdel also curates the awesome robotics list.

Ifedapo Olarewaju — Developer

Lagos, Nigeria

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 is working on maintaining and modernizing all of our SDK’s. He is also part of the Uppy team as the lead dev of Uppy-server.

Alexander Zaytsev — Designer

Kiev, 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 Dnipropetrovsk, for instance. Alex completely redesigned it and his version is now in official use.

Renée Kooi — Developer

Groningen, The Netherlands

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 has been an invaluable asset to the Uppy project and continues to work on its further development.

Edgar Conejo — Content writer & designer

Valencia, Spain

Edgar is an HTML guy who has a knack for design and photography, as well as a thirst for new technology and delicious craft beers. He was born and raised in San José, Costa Rica, then got happily married and moved to the beautiful city of Valencia, Spain. For Transloadit, Edgar is the powerhouse behind our monthly newsletter: The Dev Times.

Evgenia Karunus — Front-end Developer

Ufa, Russia

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. She spent two years in Finland studying Automation Engineering, but ended up never finishing it, as automation and engineering included surprisingly little of the maths and physics she came for. In her spare time, Evgenia works on her beloved pet project memcode.com, a spaced-repetition site for programming, physics and medicine. She also studies Creative Computing at Goldsmiths University, hoping to combine her coding cred with more theoretical subjects. At Transloadit, Evgenia applies her skills improving Uppy’s accessibility and making our customer dashboard a pleasure to work with.

Julian Gruber — Back-end Developer

Munich, Germany

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. Here at Transloadit, he is fulfilling his childhood dream of finally building some really cool and advanced robots. Beep boop!

Charlie Macnamara — Technical Writer

Scotland

Charlie is a freelance web developer and technical writer from Edinburgh, Scotland, who gets a great kick out of programming and learning new technologies. Together with a friend, he has recently started his own web development business, but they may already be looking to branch out. In his spare time, when he is not embarrassing the competition in 2D fighting games, you can often find him drawing or rolling around on his skateboard. At Transloadit, Charlie is always on the lookout for new or overlooked features to write in-depth articles about.

Elena Lape — Partnerships

Panama

Elena lives in a hacker house in Panama, where she spends 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 prefers combining her passion in tech with business development through projects such as Hack the Burgh — Scotland's biggest 24h hackathon. She manages product partnerships at GitHub Education, where she grew the GitHub Student Developer Pack nearly five times.

Alumni

Felix Geisendörfer — Co-founder

Berlin, Germany

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.

Fahad Ibnay Heylaal — Front-end developer

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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