
Thor is a Developer Experience Engineer at Google DeepMind, helping developers build their wildest dreams with Gemini. He started his career building customer-facing engineering teams at Stripe across Europe and APAC, helped Supabase grow from 800 to 2M databases, and established the developer experience team at ElevenLabs. He recently moved from Singapore to NYC and joined Google DeepMind to help developers build with the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
Thor Schaeff is a Developer Experience / Developer Relations Engineer at Google DeepMind focused on the Gemini audio models, the Gemini Live API, and real-time voice agents — making him a strong guide for developers building multimodal and conversational AI applications. His recent talks span the full Gemini audio stack (transcription to live music) and building conversational agents, drawing on prior deep DevRel work on voice and multilingual AI at ElevenLabs.
Building Conversational Agents — Thor Schaeff and Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind · Apr 2026
From Transcription to Live Music: Gemini's Audio Stack — Thor Schaeff, Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind · Jun 2026
Building Multilingual Conversational AI Agents with ElevenLabs - Thor 雷神 SchaeffNerdearla 2025 · Sep 2025Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026