Thomas Schranz
Founder & CTO at Lemmings
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolThomas Schranz is a founder and CTO with 16 years of full-stack engineering and product design experience, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He builds developer tooling and consumer-facing experiences, contributing to notable open-source projects like the brunch build tool where he improved CLI parsing, templating and asset compilation. A design-minded technologist, he blends minimalism, typography and user experience with pragmatic engineering in languages from Clojure and Lisp to Python. He has founded multiple companies (including Blossom) and invests in robotics and playful hardware, balancing software craftsmanship with physical product curiosity. Thomas’s background includes building scalable web platforms and realtime systems early in his career, and he often surfaces subtle UX wins—like responsive mobile refinements and tighter build workflows—that quietly improve developer and user productivity.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologySociology (Dropout), Sociology (Dropout) at University of ViennaDesign, Design at Lemmings I/O
English, French, German
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
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data-modeling10
css10
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database-design10
build-automation10
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react10
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mobile-development9
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jam-systems/jam
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
🍓 Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:391 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the user interface of the "Jam" application, focusing on the frontend. Their commits involved modifying the UI using HTML, CSS, and likely JavaScript/React (App.jsx). The changes included unbolding headlines, adjusting spacing, adding avatar images, reducing width for mobile devices, fixing image paths, adapting meta tags, and implementing a new room creation form. These changes improved the user experience and responsiveness across various devices.
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brunch/brunch
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
🍴 Web applications made easy. Since 2011.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:118 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily worked on the `brunch/brunch` repository, which is a web application build tool. Their contributions included implementing features related to parsing command-line options, such as the `OptionParser` class. They also refactored directory structures, updated the versioning, and added template and stylesheet compilation using tools like Stylus and Eco, demonstrating involvement in both frontend and backend build processes. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and streamlining the development workflow of the Brunch tool.
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