JSNation 2025

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.

Minko the product lead for Angular at Google. Previously, he was a technical co-founder and the CTO of Rhyme.com, which in 2019 joined Coursera.

Charlie is a senior research engineer, the author of Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript with TensorFlow.js and overall, a creative technologist. In her spare time she explores the field of human-computer interaction and builds side projects using machine learning, AR/VR, hardware and creative coding.

Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev with the goal to remove all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintains are downloaded more than 17 billion times a year. Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm. Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework. He is also co-author of the book "Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify" edited by Packt. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

Creator of the State of JS survey.

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

Alba Silvente, aka Dawntraoz, is a Sr FullStack Engineer at Storyblok. She loves writing about FE development, Jamstack, and Web Performance on her blog, speaking at conferences, hosting a Spanish tech podcast, and working hard in the open-source community. She is also a GoogleDevExpert in Web Technologies, a Microsoft MVP and an ambassador at WTM & Nuxt.

Thomas Steiner is an Engineer at Google, focused on Web AI, WebAssembly, and Project Fugu. He's an alum of University of Lyon (Postdoc), Polytechnic University of Barcelona (Ph. D.), and University of Karlsruhe (MA). Thomas toots as @[email protected].

Phil is a developer relations engineer for DataStax and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He's been working in developer relations for a decade, speaking at conferences since 2012, and writing JavaScript since before jQuery. Away from the keyboard, Phil enjoys travel, live music, and hanging out with his mini sausage dog, Ruby.

Barry Pollard is a Web Performance Developer Advocate in the Google Chrome team, working on Core Web Vitals and the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). He is one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive and it's annual Web Almanac publication. He's also the author of HTTP/2 in Action from Manning Publications.

Jo is an Engineer at Deno. She is passionate about improving developer experience, advocating for TypeScript and teaching good use of the web. She mentors junior developers, advocates a lot for mental health awareness and is devoted to improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Lead maintainer of pnpm since 2016, which started as a completely independent open-source package manager for JavaScript. Zoltan is an engineer at Bit. He works on the dependency management aspect of the Bit CLI. Previously worked at JustAnswer, where Zoltan was mainly working on front-end infrastructure.

TC39 delegate and ECMA rep, 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.

I work in open source for the web! I'm an Astro core resident, Svelte and Vite core team member.

Daniel is a software developer and developer advocate for the IPFS and libp2p projects who brings over a decade of experience with the Web stack and distributed systems. He's passionate about open-source culture, developer tools, and the Web Platform, and enjoys applying insights from various disciplines to software development.

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

Svelte Ambassador and Maintainer, sometimes called a mad scientist because of weird Javascript experiments that it does. It's one of the co-creator of Sveltelab and generally a huge nerd. Works as a SSE at Mainmatter.

I'm a Senior Software Developer, Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert Codemotion Ambassador and GitKraken Ambassador. I love JavaScript and TypeScript. In my free time, I love studying new technologies, improving myself, creating YouTube content or writing technical articles. I can’t stay without trail running and love to do it in my love Dolomiti.

Brazilian born, previously Spotify and Klarna, currently working with different teams driving development and tooling at Gilion. Also working on perflab.io to help bridging the knowledge gap on performance tooling.

Edoardo has a strong software developer and team leader background, working on various projects and platforms. He is passionate about creating and sharing content that educates and inspires other developers, such as tech talks, videos, podcasts, conferences, and more. He enjoys connecting with the developer community and promoting the benefits of open source software.

JavaScript engine developer, free software enthusiast, GNOME maintainer, hiker, technology skeptic, lapsed laser physicist.

I am a software engineer at Deno who works on developer experience, implementing web APIs, improving auto-generated documentation, and more. When I am not programming, I tinker with 3D printers & fly drones.

Senior Frontend Engineer at Uberall. I strive to understand how things work under the hood to unravel their mysteries, especially in JavaScript. Also I'm very interested in sustainable web development.

Yash is taking a break from university. He is curious about observability and reliability in large systems and constantly seeks new insights in these areas. As an active advocate of OpenTelemetry, he contributes to both the project and the broader community. Outside of tech, he’s an enthusiastic explorer - whether experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen or traveling the world to experience diverse cuisines.

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

Ewa is a Developer Relations Engineer in the Google Chrome team. She is a passionate frontend engineer deeply involved in the development of new Chrome and Web Platform features. Driven by a desire to empower developers, she focuses on creating tools and improvements that streamline workflows and enhance the overall web development experience.

GDE for Web, speaker, host of the "Inclusive Pineapple" podcast, organizer of MinskCSS, MinskJS and Accessibility Club Minsk. An unstoppable teacher in digital accessibility courses https://accessibilityunity.com/ 🙂

Carl is a web developer and team lead at City Dev Labs in Finland. He has over a decade of experience in web development with various frameworks and languages. He likes to take on challenging projects and to learn new things to effectively solve real problems. He focuses on quality code that produces real value to the end user.

Gunj Joshi is an open-source contributor and a Google Summer of Code contributor at stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and NodeJS.

Alex is Partner Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and Blink API OWNER. Before joining Edge in 2021, he worked on Chrome’s Web Platform team for a dozen years where he helped design many new features. He served as overall Tech Lead for Chromium’s Project Fugu, lead Chrome’s Standards work, and acted as a platform strategist for the web. He also served as a member of ECMA TC39 for more than a decade and was elected to three terms on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. His technical projects have included Fugu, Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Google Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

Creator of Transformers.js. Bringing the power of machine learning to the web.

At the age of just 29, Katharina is Head of IT at hylane, a rental company for hydrogen trucks. She previously worked as a software developer and data engineer at WetterOnline for 9 years. In her work, she places a special focus on sustainable corporate IT and will share her experiences.

Daniel is a software engineer with a background in first, local, and then international and VC-backed startups. He's now the lead engineer at Reckon Digital, where he directs and coordinates several projects with clients such as the UN's World Food Programme.

Mark Robustelli is an accomplished software engineer and technology leader with over 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing innovative solutions for a wide range of clients. Most recently, he has found a perfect fit that allows him to combine his love of technology with his passion for helping people as a Developer Relations Engineer at FusionAuth.

A serial tools builder, I'm super passionate about creating a magical and seamless developer experience. Have been working on creating tools, infrastructure and systems for developers over the past 7 years, and going strong!

As CTO and Co-Founder, Connell oversees Zapworks (Zappar’s AR, VR & WebXR platform) as well as being responsible for all cloud infrastructure. Connell founded Zappar in 2011, alongside Dr. Simon Taylor, Caspar Thykier and Kirk Ewing and is one of the world's leading XR Platforms and creative studios. More recently, Connell and the team launched Zapvision, an app and SDK that's helping people who are blind or have low vision to access product information on packaging through a single Accessible QR code.

I'm Sulagna Ghosh, a JavaScript engineer who loves working with React, performance optimization, web accessibility, and authentication. I enjoy solving tricky problems and fine-tuning rendering workflows to make web experiences as smooth as my morning coffee. When I'm not coding, you'll find me sharing insights through tech talks, lively discussions, and blogs. I'm always learning—whether it's a new programming language or the secret to the perfect masala chai. Always up for a good brainstorming session, especially if it involves code and caffeine.

Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, specializing in building robust and scalable JavaScript solutions. Outside of work, Anton actively contributes to the tech community by helping organize Vancouver JS, fostering developer learning and networking opportunities.