Thorsten Schaeff
Singapore
Thor is a Software Developer, Startup Advisor, and Angel Investor. Having grown up around the SAP headquarters in Germany, he started building websites back in high-school, later studied Computer Science and Media, and interned with Google in London. He joined early Stripe in Dublin, building out various user-facing engineering teams across Europe and Southeast Asia, contributing to open-source software and mentoring and investing in early stage startups along the way. Now settled in sunny Singapore, Thor builds DevRel & DX at Supabase, helping developers of different backgrounds and skill levels build awesome applications on mobile and web.
Community Contributions
Organised an impromptu developer meetup with devs in Taiwan, chatting about web technologies and remote work.
Edgy Edge Functions
Educational video series on Deno Edge Functions.
GitHub Universe Watch Party Singapore
Was invited as an in-person speaker at the GitHub Universe watch party in Singapore, teaching folks about GitHub Actions and the Supabase CLI.
nextauthjs
Contributed a Supabase adapter to the NextAuth.js project: https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/pull/5050
CityJSConf Singapore
I've help bring CityJSConf to Singapore and restart the conference and meetup circle after Covid restrictions started to be lifted.
supabase/auth-helpers
Creator and maintainer of auth-helpers for various frameworks like Next.js, Sveltekit, and Remix. Managing a team of three contributors and many community contributions.
Hack For Public Good
I was invited as a co-hacker for Singapore's Open Government Products Hack For Public Good hackathon to help build tech for public good and facilitate knowledge exchange between private and public sectors.