About LightStream
Building video infrastructure that developers actually enjoy using.
Our mission
Video infrastructure shouldn't be a bottleneck. We started LightStream because we spent years fighting unreliable CDNs, opaque pricing, and APIs designed for operations teams rather than developers. We wanted something better.
Today, LightStream handles video upload, transcoding, and delivery for teams ranging from solo indie developers to companies streaming to millions of viewers. Our goal is simple: make video a solved problem so you can focus on what makes your product special.
The team
Previously infrastructure engineering at Vimeo. Built distributed video systems for 12 years. MSc Computer Science, Saint Petersburg State University.
Former video encoding lead at a major broadcaster. Holds two patents in adaptive bitrate streaming. PhD candidate at DTU.
Open-source contributor to FFmpeg and libvpx. Obsessed with milliseconds. Previously at Cloudflare's media team.
Wrote the book — literally — on WebRTC integration. Runs a weekly streaming tech newsletter read by 14,000 engineers.
How we operate
LightStream is privately held and funded by a small group of angel investors who are also customers. We are profitable and grow organically — no pressure to chase growth metrics at the expense of reliability or developer experience.
We are fully remote, operating across Europe and North America. Our infrastructure runs on our own bare-metal servers co-located in nine datacentres, with anycast routing to 60+ edge PoPs operated by our CDN partners.