I like making complex work feel simple.

I’m Thierry — a product-minded software engineer who moves between product decisions and the code that makes them real.

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A few things I’ve helped bring to life.

Products, platforms, and interfaces—from collaborative cards to real-time media and backend systems.

01 · Co-founder & Product Engineer · Sep 2018 — Present

Sharewell

A SaaS platform for creating greeting cards collaboratively.

Problem: Give groups a simple way to contribute messages to one greeting card.
My role: Co-founded Sharewell and owned the product end to end, from customer discovery and UX through engineering, infrastructure, analytics, and operations.
What I built: The Node.js, Vue.js, MongoDB, and AWS platform, including premium monetization, PDF generation, email delivery, and product analytics.
Result: More than 100,000 messages created and thousands of collaborative cards generated.

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A few screens from the flow.

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01 Start a card

02 Add a message

03 Choose a design

02 · Senior Software Engineer · Sep 2018 — Jun 2025

talent.io

Critical business systems for a platform serving tens of thousands of customers.

Problem: Keep billing, payments, email delivery, and security systems reliable at customer scale.
My role: Owned and scaled critical business systems, partnering with product, finance, and operations.
What I built: A billing platform with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and AWS, plus transactional email infrastructure and security improvements.
Result: Billing supported more than 30,000 payments, while email systems delivered over one million transactional emails.

03 · Software Engineer · May 2017 — Oct 2017

Streem

A media monitoring and analysis product built for real-time search. Streem was acquired by Cision.

Focus: Make real-time media coverage searchable through a high-performance interface.
My role: One of the first engineers, shipping core product work from an early stage.
What I built: The Angular dashboard, Ionic mobile app, and Elasticsearch-backed search interface.
Result: Shipped the core dashboard and mobile app, and built search for real-time media monitoring.

04 · Software Engineer · Aug 2014 — Dec 2016

Streamroot

Backend infrastructure and customer analytics for real-time systems. Streamroot was acquired by Lumen.

Focus: Build backend services for high concurrency and make customer activity measurable.
My role: The first backend engineer; owned architecture and led a team of two on the analytics dashboard.
What I built: Node.js and Go infrastructure on AWS and Azure, a WebSocket system, and an InfluxDB customer analytics dashboard.
Result: The real-time system supported 10,000+ simultaneous WebSocket connections; the dashboard processed 100,000+ data points.

05 · Frontend Engineer · Oct 2012 — May 2014

TakeTracker

A browser application built around HTML5 audio, video, and canvas.

My role: Frontend Engineer, balancing independent implementation with collaborative product work.
What I built: The JavaScript and AngularJS frontend, including the app’s HTML5 audio, video, and canvas experience.
Collaboration: Worked independently and with three people across API, design, and UX.

From complex systems
to products people can use.

I’m a product-minded software engineer with 13+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products. My work spans payments, monetization, analytics, and customer-facing applications—from product decisions through engineering and operations.

Let’s make something useful, together.

contact@thierrynilles.com