About Transloadit

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 web and application 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, Robots and scaling algorithms, super-vising 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.

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.

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 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. 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.

Peter Assentorp — Designer

Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter is a self-taught designer & frontend 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).

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 & Support Engineer

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.

Ethan Willis — Support Engineer

Memphis, TN, USA

Ethan obtained a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Memphis. He has applied his academic background to various problems such as Genotation and OpenBehavior. He likes to tinker on cars and bioreactors in his free time and is currently planning a DIY electric car build. At Transloadit, Ethan is building upon his love of sharing knowledge and helping others solve problems by providing support to Transloadit's clients.

Andrew Kachnic — Support Engineer

New Jersey, USA

Andrew is a bright young developer from New Jersey, USA. He has been coding for just two years, but any experience he may lack, he makes up for in raw talent and dedication. Andrew is currently in high school, where he is an all-honors student and plays trumpet in the marching band. In his spare time, he also practices the ancient art of karate. You might want to think twice before criticizing his work, is all we’re saying. At Transloadit, Andrew applies his talents by helping us create new integrations for Uppy.

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 — Support Engineer

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 part of our dedicated support team, Joseph is constantly looking for ways to help Transloadit's customers reach their goals.

Antoine du Hamel — Developer

France

Florian Künzig — Developer

Germany

Merlijn Vos — Developer

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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.