JSNation 2022

Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome. He leads up Chrome's Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences.

Sarah Drasner is Director of Engineering, Core Developer Web at Google, where she runs web infrastructure, including open source projects like Angular, Karma, and Sass. Sarah is formerly VP at Netlify, Vue core team emeritus, and an O'Reilly author. Sarah also co-organized ConcatenateConf with Christian Nwamba, a conference for Nigerian and Kenyan developers.

Evan is an independent software developer and the creator of the open source JavaScript framework Vue.js. Most of his work is open source and publicly available on GitHub. You can follow Evan on Twitter where he mostly tweets about Vue and frontend technologies.

Recovering journalist, open source provocateur. Started Rollup and Svelte. On a mission to make web development fun.

Over the years, Yehuda has worked on a number of open source projects, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery and Rust. He also created some of his own, including Handlebars, Ember.js and Cargo (Rust's package manager). At the moment, he's working on a new library that extracts the best part's of Ember's auto-tracking reactivity system into a package that you can use in any UI framework. That's what this talk is about!

As a JavaScript performance enthusiast, and fine-grained reactivity super-fan, Ryan is obsessively passionate about the future of JavaScript frameworks. He is the creator of SolidJS, and a maintainer of Marko.

Erick Wendel is a Node.js Core Team Developer, Keynote Speaker, and professional educator. He's delivered over 100 tech talks in 10+ countries and has been recognized as a Node.js Specialist with awards from Google, Microsoft, and GitHub. With his company https://erickwendel.com, Erick has trained over 100K people worldwide.

Creator of Webpack and Turbopack. Father of two children. Likes to play board games.

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

Brandon is a Developer Experience Engineer, focused on community engagement, content creation, and collaboration. He enjoys learning new things, helping other developers be successful, speaking at conferences, and contributing to open source. He is a GDE, technical writer, and maintainer of the NgRx project building libraries for reactive Angular applications.

Eva is a Front-End developer who loves cats and makes many Harry Potter jokes. From Buenos Aires, Argentina Eva enjoys making websites and teaching HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript. Eva loves the challenge of developing fast, accessible and responsive interfaces, layouts and animations. CSSConf Argentina organizer.

Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP, trainer, and consultant with a focus on Angular and RxJS. For years he has been helping companies and developers to set up scalable architectures and performant processes enabling teams to keep up with state-of-the-art development. A vibrant member of the tech community, he organizes multiple community events and workshops each year to give back.

Astrocoder, Developer Experience Engineer, GitHub Star—Colby Fayock helps others get the tech out of the way to solve real problems with the tools of the web. He works with the dev community at Cloudinary and is a prolific creator of educational content teaching others through learning by doing one Star Wars plush cuddle at a time.

Aleksandra is a full-stack engineer currently working on developer experience at EdgeDB. Previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console and a lead maintainer of Blitz.js. Deeply passionate about open-source, TypeScript and dedicated to staying up to date with the JavaScript ecosystem. In love with all things climbing — hiking, via ferratas, rock climbing.

Carolina is always exploring new paths and looking for new perspectives for solving problems. As a computer scientist working at Briza, she loves to work in challenging industries, like insurance. She believes that everyone is responsible for making the tech environment safer and diverse. Pasta maker, coffee enthusiast and book lover.

Maël is a distinguished software engineer, recognized for his contributions to the tech industry. He is currently the lead maintainer for Yarn, a popular JavaScript package manager. Maël's expertise extends across multiple domains, but he specializes in front-end development, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Known for his practical and innovative solutions, Maël's work has been integral to improving JavaScript's ecosystem. Apart from his professional achievements, Maël is a passionate advocate for open source projects and contributes to various initiatives.

The creator of Q.js (a drag-and-drop quantum circuit composer) and Handy.js (a hand pose capture and recognition toolkit for WebXR). Stewart invents fun future things in collaboration with his amazing colleagues at Unity Technologies where he serves as Head of Consumer Augmented Reality. Prior to Unity, Stewart has worked with renowned hybrid studios like Google’s Data Arts Team, Google Creative Lab, Amazon’s Emerging Technologies and Intelligence Platforms team, and Unity Labs. Together with his talented teammates, he’s won industry awards like the Cannes Gold Lion, created a virtual reality music video for LCD Soundsystem, and collaborated with Ernő Rubik to create the “Beyond Rubik’s Cube” traveling exhibition. What really makes Stewart happy is partnering with smart friends to take on the impossible – or the ridiculous. Stewart received his Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Yale University. His artwork has been exhibited at various museums around the world, he’s taught graduate courses that mix code with graphic design, served on various industry panels, and is always excited about the future.

Krzysztof is a photographer, globetrotter open-source maintainer, and public speaker. He works as a Senior Research Engineer at GitHub Next, where he designs and builds the next generation of developer tools such as GitHub Copilot. After the work, Krzysztof is an open-source software maintainer passionate about functional programming (especially F#), editor tooling and developer experience - he has created and maintained several OSS projects varying from language servers to web frameworks to VSCode plugins. Additionally, he is a passionate public speaker. You can meet him at many conferences around the world, where he is always trying to meet new people and learn how to make the lives of software developers better.

Lead Frontend Developer and CSS Evangelist. Editor of the @webstandards_en frontend news feed. The 5th voice of the Web Standards weekly podcast. Google Developers Expert on web. The organizer of conferences and local meetups. Friendly beard.

TC39 delegate, working on JavaScript feature proposals. Hemanth is a FOSS philosopher and MTS at PayPal Inc. Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments. DuckDuckGo community leader. Member of Node.js Foundation. Google Launchpad Accelerator mentor.

Member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee & a hapi core team member. Colin Ihrig is a software engineer working primarily with Node.js. He is the author of Pro Node.js for Developers, and co-author of Full Stack JavaScript Development with MEAN.

Working in the Developer Experience team at Contentful, Harshil enjoys sharing his learnings with the community. A JavaScript developer, open-source contributor, and a low-code enthusiast, Harshil loves experimenting with tech and building fun projects.

Ruy is an open-source maintainer, Node.js contributor and member of the npm cli team at GitHub fostering community contributions while also working on tools that manages millions of JavaScript package installs everyday. He also speaks at conferences and meetups from time to time, you can find some of the presented content on Speaker Deck and Youtube.

Nico Martin is a self-taught web-developer and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies from Switzerland. While working as a freelance frontend consultant, creative coding has always been his passion. And he shares this enthusiasm whenever possible in workshops, articles or talks.

Liad is the Frontend Architect in Shopify, in charge of its client-side infrastructure, technologies, and performance. He is a web dev enthusiast for over a decade, juggling React, Webpack and Buzzwords@latest in order to always build the best user experience.

Russ Fustino is a Developer Advocate on Blockchain for Algorand helping developers learn how to build Blockchain solutions. Russ is a Microsoft MVP reconnect in App Development and a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Fustino has a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools. He shares that knowledge via live seminars, teachings, and internet video productions. Russ has enlightened, entertained and educated over one million developers over the course of his career. He is a recipient of the INETA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stephen is a Senior Developer at AG Grid. An active blogger writing about web tech who speaks at conferences and meet-ups worldwide, sharing practical and experience-based tips, tricks, and case studies.

Miro is a senior engineer at Nrwl.io and a core member of the Nx team. He's interested in the front end of things, helping companies build scalable and performant applications. He enjoys sharing with the community, speaking, contributing to open source, and organizing events. Miro is co-founder of Angular Austria and co-organizer of Angular Vienna and ViennaJS meetups.

Software Engineer at Postman. I build scalable and reactive web apps with React and some caffeine! OSS contributor and maintainer @ OSSN Blogger @Medium Speaker

Naomi is a Software Development Engineer at Adobe on the Globalization, Core Services team where she works on the internationalization and localization of Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products. Before writing JavaScript full time, Naomi worked as a teacher across Asia and West Africa. She enjoys weekends outside - hiking, camping, and riding bikes.

I am a frontend engineer working. I am a JS enthusiast. I love talking about the Web and exploring new technologies. I believe knowledge grows with sharing , so I love to spread my knowledge about frontend.

Architect and full stack developer, jack of all Typescript, Web3, .NET Core, Flutter, Kubernetes, Dev Ops, Networking, Monitoring, Analytics, Databases, APIs and all the things! Specializing in web3 content management and developer experiences.

My name is Dmitry Kudryavtsev. I'm Russian born, and currently living in Israel, Software Engineer. I'm passionate about programming, and started to write software from the age of 14 using Pascal, C and PHP. I've touched nearly every programming language out there, and right now I'm passionate about JavaScript (well, I prefer TypeScript) and Rust. I have more than 11 years of professional experience, and worked in multiple companies (including Autodesk), occupying different titles such as: Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Consultant. In my free time I like to write code and experiment with new technologies, get outdoors, read, focus on self improvement and productivity as well as boxing and staying healthy.

Robin is a Software Infrastructure engineer who works on Bloomberg's internal JavaScript environment. This includes working on our large-scale TypeScript build system and the JavaScript standard (ECMAScript) to improve our engineers' productivity. Along the way, Robin started working on Record & Tuple, a new proposed feature for JavaScript, and joined the Bloomberg TC39 delegates to champion the feature.

Working on advancing Data Visualization and Data Science with RAPIDS.ai / GPU acceleration at NVIDIA. In a previous life was an Industrial Design Lead.

Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Jean-Philippe Côté is an educator, technologist and artist based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). He has been using JavaScript since the very beginning for both professional work and artistic projects. He is a respected contributor of the open source community, especially in the fields of music technology, creative coding and physical computing. In 2020, he joined the ranks of the W3C's Web Audio Group. Jean-Philippe holds a master's degree in communication and is currently pursuing a PhD in arts studies and practices. He is a professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit.

I am around the industry for quite a long time having experience spanning over multiple decades. Started coding with the procedural programming approach in Basic and C. Then witness the rise of Object Oriented paradigm and spent years developing in ActionScript and C# and Java and later Ruby and Javascript. Was part of the e-commerce boom and developed hundreds of web portals in PHP, ASP, .NET. The MVC era revolutionized the industry and I contributed through Yii, Zend, CI, CakePHP, Kohana, and later RoR. And now very enthusiastic about the rebirth of functional programming.

A software engineer focusing mostly on JavaScript and web technologies. You'll find me wherever web technologies are found!

Andy Desmarais is a father of 4 who aims to constantly be learning and growing with the ever evolving web platform. He has over 15 years of experience with web development and has grown his skills with the web platform along the way. An avid outdoorsman he enjoys spending time hiking, climbing, and just being outside!

Kyle Simpson is a human first and then an engineer. His mission is to show the world that the culture of empathy and relational information exchange are keys to unlocking the full potential of every human in the workplace. JS and open web technologies are among Kyle's favorite tools to augment human endeavors. Kyle has published 10+ books on JS, taught thousands of developers from teams around the world, and his training videos have been watched over 750,000 hours. He's still fighting for the people behind the pixels.

Software Engineer that used to build stand alone applications for data processing and mission planning systems turned into a Full-Stack Developer working with Test Driven Development, XP and Pair Programming. Also a Mom now.

Tech lead and coach at Theodo UK. Passionate about improving developer experience and building web apps without frustrations (for both users and devs).

Obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2015 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. CTO and founder of Codete. Leading and mentoring teams at Codete. Working with Fortune 500 companies on data science projects. Built a research lab for machine learning methods and big data solutions at Codete. Gives speeches and trainings in data science with a focus on applied machine learning in German, Polish, and English. Used to be an O’Reilly trainer.

Alessandro is founder and CTO of Leaning Technologies. They just released WebVM, a WebAssembly-powered x86 virtual machine running in the browser. Originally from Rome, he has lived in Amsterdam since 2014.

Adam Abramov is an 8200 alumni, cybersecurity professional and DoubleVerify’s one and only reverse engineer. In his job he deconstructs ad fraud schemes and creates systems that detect them at scale. Previously he researched vulnerabilities, mainly focused on browser security.

Now building Makepad, Formerly founder Cloud9IDE.

Yulia Startsev is a staff software engineer at Mozilla. She works on the SpiderMonkey Team, which develops the JavaScript engine for Firefox. She represents Mozilla at ECMA TC39, the standardizing body for JavaScript (officially known as EcmaScript). She is currently based in Germany, where she enjoys fine teas, video games, and working on the future of the free and open web.

Long-time hobby coder turned professional.

Daniel, 46, is cofounder, core member, and chairperson of the board of directors of the Tauri Programme within the Commons Conservancy. Previously he was a volunteer at the Gängeviertel Hamburg and a core member of the Quasar Framework team. Today, as an active member of both open-source and real-world activist communities, he strives to empower people to create better a better world using strong cryptography, sound security principles, ecological points of view, and respect for privacy. He speaks and writes about holistic engineering, and is based in Malta.

Sam is a former Googler, and now CTO of an energy startup here in Australia. He has an ongoing interest in web standards, lightweight websites and starting too many side projects.

Marcos Maia is a passionate software developer working as Staff Engineer at Bitvavo in the Netherlands and has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. Fiery about technology, distributed systems, engineering culture and a lifelong learner, worked with multiple complex distributed systems and teams. Had the opportunity to work in multiple different countries and played many different roles, from engineering to architecture and consultancy mostly within the financial sector. Loves to share his experiences about engineering culture, distributed computing and of course NodeJS and Apache Kafka.

Nik Kalyani is the founder and CEO of Decentology, the company behind Hyperverse, the open, decentralized platform that makes it easy for web developers to build blockchain applications. He found his passion for crypto while tinkering with a Bitcoin mining rig in 2013 and has never looked back. As a serial entrepreneur, Kalyani previously co-founded DNN Software, a popular Open Source CMS in the Microsoft ecosystem (acquired in 2017). He has been recognized with Microsoft’s “Most Valuable Professional” award for 11 years for his community contributions.