diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/streamz/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/streamz/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b23853a9bae0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/streamz/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, tornado
+, toolz
+, zict
+, six
+, pytest
+, networkx
+, distributed
+, confluent-kafka
+, graphviz
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "streamz";
+  version = "0.5.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "cfdd42aa62df299f550768de5002ec83112136a34b44441db9d633b2df802fb4";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest networkx distributed confluent-kafka graphviz ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    tornado
+    toolz
+    zict
+    six
+  ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Pipelines to manage continuous streams of data";
+    homepage = http://github.com/mrocklin/streamz/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index fd3f589fa30b..11ab29088f05 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4168,6 +4168,8 @@ in {
 
   statsmodels = callPackage ../development/python-modules/statsmodels { };
 
+  streamz = callPackage ../development/python-modules/streamz { };
+
   structlog = callPackage ../development/python-modules/structlog { };
 
   sybil = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sybil { };