Thorsten Schaeff

Co-Founder

New York, New York, United States15 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Supabase's growth to over 1 million databases.
  • Built Developer Experience teams at multiple tech companies.
  • Mentored and invested in early-stage startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Developer Advocate with extensive experience in Developer Relations and Startup Ecosystems.

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Early-Stage StartupsTeachingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Electronic PaymentsFull-Stack Development

About

TL;DR: I help developers build with Gemini. 🔨 I am a Software Developer and Teacher, Startup Advisor, and Angel Investor. Having grown up around the SAP headquarters in Germany, I started building on the web back in high-school, later studied Computer Science and Media across Germany, Ireland, and Switzerland, and interned with Google in London. I joined early Stripe in Dublin, building out various user-facing engineering teams across Europe and Southeast Asia, contributing to open-source software, while mentoring and investing in early stage startups along the way. I spent six years in sunny Singapore, where I build DevRel & DX at Supabase, helping developers of different backgrounds and skill levels leverage the power of Postgres to build versatile and scalable applications on mobile and web, growing Supabase from 800 databases to well beyond 1 million databases created on the platform. After fours years working on Supabase, I joined ElevenLabs to help stand up their Developer Experience team and recently moved to New York City. Settled in NYC, I've joined Google DeepMind to help developers build their wildest dreams with Gemini. All views here are my own.

Experience

Google deepmind

Developer Relations Engineer

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • I help developers build their wildest dreams with Gemini ✨

Elevenlabs

2 roles

Developer Relations Engineer

Aug 2025Nov 2025 · 3 mos

  • Helping developers build the best AI Audio experiences.

Developer Relations Engineer

Jan 2025Aug 2025 · 7 mos

  • Building the developer platform for AI audio! ♫

Hackerhouse taiwan

Founder

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Taiwan · Remote

Supabase

Developer Experience Leader

Sep 2021Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Singapore · Remote

  • Helped Supabase grow from 800 databases to well beyond 1 million databases created on the platform. Built the Developer Experience and Developer Relations functions at Supabase, where we help developers of different backgrounds and skill levels leverage the power of Postgres to build versatile and scalable applications on mobile and web.

Stripe

4 roles

Developer Advocate

Promoted

Sep 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Founding member of a now globally distributed team of developer advocates. Helped build up the developer video content production and grow a developer YouTube video channel to more than 10k subscribers.
  • Built strategic partnerships with other strong developer brands like Netlify, Vercel, and Google Firebase, for joint example project and video content production which has helped thousands of developers integrate payments in their projects.
  • Major contributor to the Stripe React Native SDK and mentor to the open-source Flutter SDK community project, both of which allow developers to integrate payments in their mobile apps more easily.

Integration Engineer

Oct 2018Sep 2019 · 11 mos

  • As part of the Customer Engineering team at Stripe we work with some of the world's largest marketplaces and fast-growing technology startups, providing integration services for complex SaaS billing and multi-sided marketplace integrations.

Partner Engineer

Jun 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • First Partner Engineer for Stripe in Europe working with some of the world's largest marketplaces and fast-growing technology startups. Providing technical pre-sales and post-sales integration services for complex SaaS billing and multi-sided marketplace integrations. Working in close collaboration with our product teams on building the payments platform for forward-thinking businesses around the world.

User Ops

Jan 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • First german speaking hire for Stripe in Dublin, working with our customers in Northern Europe across sales, support, and account management. Established and trained the german-speaking support team in Dublin as well as support vendors across Ireland. Helped grow the Dublin office from 20 to 120 employees in less than three years.

Sap (schweiz) ag

Thesis Student

Feb 2015Jul 2015 · 5 mos · Sankt Gallen und Umgebung, Schweiz

  • Conducting research on the strategic management of the ability to innovate as part of the future corporate management working group.
  • Development of a concept for a gamified tool that implements an abstract model of the ability to innovate in an enterprise context.
  • Development of modern, web based application prototypes using the SAPUI5 toolkit and state of the art web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Google

Sales Engineering Intern

Jun 2014Dec 2014 · 6 mos · London, Großbritannien

  • Improved the pipeline for large scale geospatial analysis projects by combining Google’s Cloud Platform Products with open source libraries to create a generic approach for a wide range of customer needs.
  • Developed POC prototypes to showcase the advantage of Google’s Cloud Platform Technologies for Big Data analytics and spatial data visualization.
  • Side project with the Developer Relations Team creating custom web elements for web based Chromecast sender applications.

Fanfootage

Web Developer

Feb 2014May 2014 · 3 mos · Dublin

  • Refactoring of a flash-based multi-angle video player to open HTML5 standards by using open source libraries like video.js and Angular.

Sap

2 roles

Working Student

Apr 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Increased the efficiency of internal communication and asset management by redesigning and restructuring the internal social media channel.
  • Boosted customer and partner events by creating social collaboration workspaces for internal and external communication in preparation of and during the events.
  • Enhanced the hiring process by acquiring and training new working students

Lecturer in (Mobile) Web Applications

Jul 2009Aug 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Increased SAP’s future success by training the employees’ children in modern web design and client- and server-side scripting.
  • Progressed the program by developing and piloting new courses and training new lecturers to autonomously teach these courses in the future.

Stuttgart media university

Student Research Assistant in Human Computer Interaction

Mar 2012Feb 2013 · 11 mos · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  • Advanced the students' knowledge in Human Computer Interaction by planning and overseeing the exercise sessions.

Kulturfenster heidelberg

Sound and Light Engineer

Mar 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  • Helped bands and theatre groups to deliver stunning performances by overseeing the sound and lighting engineering.

Education

Trinity College Dublin

Master — Management of Information Systems (unfinished)

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Multimedia & Web Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Stuttgart Media University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Computer Science & Media

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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