Biography:Max Stoiber
Maximilian Stoiber (born January 4th, 1997 in Vienna, Austria), known professionally as Max Stoiber, stylized as mxstbr, is an Austrian software engineer and best known for being the creator of styled-components[1] and react-boilerplate[2]. He specialises in JavaScript engineering and is known for his notable[3] work in open-source. He was shortlisted in the D-A-CH edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.[4]
Life
Stoiber grew up in Mödling, a city in Lower Austria near Vienna. He attended the Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule in Vienna, a school for highly-gifted pupils. After graduating in 2014, he moved to Vienna and began his studies in computer science at the TU Wien.
In April 2020, a documentary about his life was published[5] by Honeypot[6], a developer-focused platform, on YouTube. Only six months later, the video reached over 70,000 views.[7]
Work
In early 2015, Stoiber interned at Animade in London, England for three months where he first learned React.[8] His project[9] at the company, Frankensim, won multiple awards, including the Lovie Awards[10], CSS Winner Site of the Month[11], and the Webby Awards[12].
Open Source
After building several side projects during the year, react-boilerplate caught the attention of the Hacker News community around Christmas time, which resulted in 3000 stars on GitHub and the start of his professional career.[13] Stoiber was invited to speak at dozens of conferences around the world[14][15][16] about his work on react-boilerplate the next year.[17]
On October 13th, 2016, Glen Maddern and Stoiber announced styled-components[18], an open-source library[19] which is nowadays used by 1% of all public, crawlable websites, the most prominent one being Google.[20][21]
Spectrum
In 2017, Stoiber co-founded a startup called Spectrum[22], a platform for open source developer communities, alongside Bryn Jackson and Brian Lovin.
In 2018, aged 21, he was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in the category of social media for his work as the chief technology officer.
In November of 2018, Spectrum was acquired by GitHub.[23]
2019-present
Until February 2020, Stoiber worked at GitHub, before joining Gatsby JS, a company based in Berkeley, San Francisco, as a staff software engineer.[24]
In March 2021, Stoiber co-founded another startup called GraphCDN, a Content Delivery Network for GraphQL APIs, alongside Tim Suchanek.[25][26][27]
References
- ↑ styled-components. "styled-components" (in en). https://www.styled-components.com/.
- ↑ react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate, react-boilerplate, 2020-12-26, https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate, retrieved 2020-12-26
- ↑ "Open Source Wunder - Forbes". 2017-08-10. https://www.forbes.at/open-source-wunder/.
- ↑ "Maximilian Stoiber" (in de). https://www.forbes.at/artikel/maximilian-stoiber.html.
- ↑ "How Open Source Changed My Life with Max Stoiber | .cult by Honeypot" (in en). https://cult.honeypot.io/originals/max-stoiber.
- ↑ "Honeypot | Europe's Developer-Focused Job Platform" (in en). https://www.honeypot.io/.
- ↑ "How Open Source Changed My Life with Max Stoiber - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifq3xhik8tE&ab_channel=Honeypot.
- ↑ "2016 in review: A dream come true" (in en). 2016-12-21. https://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/.
- ↑ "Play" (in en). https://mxstbr.com/appearances.
- ↑ "Animade Declaration of Lovie at The 6th Annual Lovie Awards 2016 - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YS8YDgp-_I.
- ↑ "frankenSim - CSS Winner". https://www.csswinner.com/details/frankensim/9805.
- ↑ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index" (in en). http://winners.webbyawards.com/2016/websites/general-websites/weird/160249/frankensim.
- ↑ "Hacker News". 2015-12-27. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10794502.
- ↑ "Offline is the new Black" (in en). https://speakerdeck.com/mxstbr/offline-is-the-new-black.
- ↑ Conference, Øredev (2016-05-30), AT THE FRONTEND 2016 - Max Stoiber - Scaling React.js Applications, https://vimeo.com/168648012, retrieved 2021-01-01
- ↑ (in en) Channel 9 live: Interview with Max Stoiber, https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016/Channel-9-live-Interview-with-Max-Stoiber, retrieved 2021-01-01
- ↑ "2016 in review: A dream come true" (in en). 2016-12-21. https://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/.
- ↑ "ReactNL 2016 Max Stoiber - Styling React.JS applications - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=25m48s&v=19gqsBc_Cx0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ReactNL.
- ↑ styled-components. "styled-components" (in en). https://www.styled-components.com/.
- ↑ Stoiber, Max. "styled-compenents used in 1% of all websites". https://twitter.com/mxstbr/status/1329718366769205248.
- ↑ "CSS results (Web Almanac 2020)" (in en-US). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMWXWjMujqfAREYxNbG_t1fOJKYCA6ASLwtz4pBQVTw/edit?usp=embed_facebook.
- ↑ "Starting something new: Introducing Spectrum" (in en). 2017-10-26. https://mxstbr.blog/2017/10/spectrum/.
- ↑ Lobo, Savia (2018-12-03). "GitHub acquires Spectrum, a community-centric conversational platform" (in en-US). https://hub.packtpub.com/github-acquires-spectrum-a-community-centric-conversational-platform/.
- ↑ "I am joining Gatsby". https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/gatsby/.
- ↑ "Announcing GraphCDN, the CDN for GraphQL APIs". https://graphcdn.io/.
- ↑ "GraphCDN: Österreichische Gründer holen zum Starten prominente Investoren" (in de-DE). 2021-06-17. https://www.trendingtopics.at/graphcdn-oesterreichische-gruender-holen-zum-starten-prominente-investoren/.
- ↑ "GraphCDN: Wiener “Content Delivery Network" schnappt sich Silicon Valley-Angels" (in de). 2021-06-17. https://brutkasten.com/graphcdn-wiener-content-delivery-network-schnappt-sich-silicon-valley-angels/.
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