JSNation US 2026

Wes Bos is a Full Stack developer from Canada. Constantly learning, he creates web development courses focused on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, CSS, Node.js and whatever else comes his way. Wes is the co-host of the popular Syntax.fm podcast and has taught over half a million people JavaScript and has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

Daniel Ávila is a Chilean AI Software Engineer and open-source builder based in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the creator of Claude Code Templates (aitmpl.com), a component library for Claude Code with 111K+ npm downloads and 21K+ GitHub stars, featured in Anthropic's official documentation and part of the Claude Open Source Program. He is AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer, where he builds enterprise agentic systems for hedge funds in New York. Daniel has presented at major tech events across the US, Spain, Brazil, Peru, and South Korea.

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

Rachel White is a technologist, artist, and pretend-cyborg currently working as a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. Previously at American Express, Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, she has spoken internationally about Node.js, JavaScript, Creative Coding, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, NodeBots, and hardware, and served as co-chair of the Node.js Community Committee. As a former artist in residence at Pioneer Works, she created a series visualizing modern cybernetic augmentation using today's hardware and special effects makeup. Outside of tech she's into glitch art, 80s horror, and indie games — her aesthetic is fog machines, laser lights, and broken VHS tapes.

Award winning Creative developer teaching of creative dev at Offscreencanvas.com.

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 @tomayac@toot.cafe.

I'm a Senior Engineer based in Toronto, Canada. I work in the JavaScript SDK team at Sentry. I’m a GDE in Web Technologies. I created vee-validate and villus for Vue.js. I host the Untyped podcast. I write about Vue.js and the composition API and also TypeScript on my Blog. I am passionate about learning and teaching Vue.js and TypeScript.

Brad Westfall has been teaching Web Development since 2010 including bootcamp instruction, online videos, conference speaking, writing at CSS-Tricks.com, and corporate training for ReactTraining.com. He loves to connect with students by helping them achieve their technical goals and by distilling complex concepts into simple instruction.

Maya is Lead Software Engineer in Salesforce, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer.

Carmen Huidobro is a developer advocate and dev education enthusiast. She thrives on lifting others up in their tech careers and loves a good CSS challenge. Always excited to talk about teaching tech, especialmente en Español, oder auf Deutsch.

Nico Martin is a Machine Learning Engineer with focus on WebML at 🤗 Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert in AI and Web Technologies from Switzerland. He specializes in making AI accessible through web browsers, developing tools that simplify ML integration for developers. Nico actively shares his expertise through workshops, articles, and conference presentations, bridging the gap between web development and machine learning communities.

Amanda leads Developer Relations at Vapi, where she supports developer education and community facing initiatives for developers building with Voice AI. Previously, she cofounded the MCP server builder community and worked on MCP integrations at Apollo GraphQL, and built the developer community at Wix. In a past live before devrel, Amanda worked as a full stack developer. Her current tech interests span voice AI, agentic systems, and developer tooling, with a focus on hands-on content. When she's not building for developers, she's cooking, reading, or getting outside with her dogs.

I’m Theodore, a software engineer, educator and speaker based in Athens, Greece. I’m currently working as a lead software engineer for Workable.

Tech leader leveraging AI to solve real business problems. Built and scaled AI solutions across multiple ventures - from custom agent architectures to enterprise RAG systems and local AI deployments. My biggest passion is teaching others how to leverage AI effectively. I run a private AI community and a YouTube channel breaking down complex AI concepts into practical, hands-on guides. My content mostly covers building AI agents and leveraging AI coding assistants in ways that actually scale.

Austin is a husband, father, and software engineer. He enjoys volunteering in his local community and mentoring young developers. In his spare time he also contributes to open source, enjoys breakdancing, playing his cello, and Muay Thai.

Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer. He specializes in TypeScript, ECMAScript, React and Svelte. His work includes popular collaboration software as well as a large, global, safety application for the oil and gas industry. He has a preference for working with startups and smaller, more dynamic companies. Maurice is also active in the open source community. He teaches ECMAScript, TypeScript, React, Cypress, Playwright and RxJS courses. Since 2005, he has received Microsoft’s Yearly Most Valuable Professional Award. Further, Maurice is active in the Dutch dotNed user group and helps organize its meetings.

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.

A software engineer trying to grasp technical and interpersonal skills as much as possible. He has organized and spoken at numerous tech conferences and meetups, giving him a strong background in both technical and interpersonal skills. This experience also taught him how to effectively learn developer skills and share that knowledge with an audience in a way that is engaging and interactive.

Aayush Kapoor is a software engineer at Vercel, based in New York City. He currently works on developer tools and AI infrastructure, primarily focusing on the AI SDK library. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, where his work connected software engineering, machine learning, and research. His experience spans AI systems, SDK development, and applied machine learning, including research in privacy and incremental learning.

Vikash Agrawal is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading initiatives in the AWS CloudWatch team. Previously, he played a key role in developing Amazon Q Developer, a Generative AI-powered assistant for developers. With over a decade of experience in software engineering and leadership, Vikash has led high-impact teams at Housing.com and Dream11, driving innovation and scalable solutions. A strong advocate for open-source, he has contributed to Mozilla (2012) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2013) through the prestigious Google Summer of Code. Passionate about AI, cloud computing, and engineering excellence, he is dedicated to building cutting-edge technology that empowers developers worldwide.

Raihan Nismara is an experienced front-end web developer from Indonesia who is passionate about crafting memorable experiences through apps and sharing his knowledge and actively contributes to the tech community through his podcast, volunteering, and speaking engagements.

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly at international conferences and workshops on turning AI tools into measurable gains in developer productivity and code quality.

I'm Rumen and I'm a self-taught software engineer from Sofia, Bulgaria. After graduating with a business degree and working as a sales rep for a few years I decided I'd much rather be involved in building digital products than selling them. Ten years later this is the best decision I ever made.

I'm a Lead Full Stack Engineer with a strong front-end focus, currently shaping high-performance, SEO-optimized Angular platforms at Cipher Sports. My passion lies in building real-time, user-first digital experiences—where elegant design meets robust architecture. I’ve led teams across industries like sports tech, AI, and IoT, always keeping the end user at the center of every decision. With over a decade of experience spanning scalable microservices, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (AWS), I bring both breadth and depth to modern software development. From real-time data pipelines to highly interactive front ends using Angular Universal, I aim to deliver performance, reliability, and accessibility at scale. In addition to my technical experience, I am also an accomplished author. I’ve written several books published by Novatec, SP, which have helped thousands of developers across Brazil and beyond. My titles include Laravel para ninjas (2017), Análise de Redes Sociais (2015), Criando um E-Commerce com CodeIgniter (2015), PHP e MVC com CodeIgniter (2012), and CodeIgniter Framework PHP (2010). These works reflect not only my commitment to education and open knowledge but also my enthusiasm for empowering others in the software development community. I also hold a PhD in Computer Science, with a focus on memetic algorithms for community detection in complex networks. Whether it’s writing code, mentoring teams, or contributing to academic research, I’m driven by the same goal: creating smart, resilient tech that solves real-world problems.

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Cursor Ambassador • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

Aviv Keller is a Node.js collaborator, webpack TSC member, open source developer, and security researcher. Since joining Node.js in 2023, he's contributed across core, triage, the website, and API documentation, and is now heading the project's ongoing documentation redesign, all work that earned him the OpenJS Foundation's JavaScriptLandia "Outstanding Contribution from a New Arrival" award at JSConf NA 2025. On the webpack TSC, another OpenJS project, he led the website redesign, mentoring three students through Google Summer of Code and representing webpack as its delegate to the 2026 GSoC Mentor Summit. Beyond FOSS (though never far from it), Aviv is a top security researcher, who has been recognized, Google, Apple, NASA, the UN, NVIDIA, GitHub, and more than thirty other organizations, with published CVEs across projects including JupyterLab, GoCD, and YARD.

Sulagna Ghosh is a Solutions Engineer at Creowis and the lead organiser of React Kolkata, a community she grew to 1,500+ members in under eight months. She has spoken at JSNation 2025, React India 2025, GDG Devfest Kolkata, GDG Kolkata Build with AI 2025 and more events, each talk built around a browser primitive React developers overlook and the architectural problem it quietly solves. She is recognised for her contributions to the Kolkata and Indian tech ecosystem by GDG India Women in Tech 2026.

Michael Madsen is an Application Architect at Cisco with a serious knack for all things front-end web and AI engineering. He's currently diving deep into the exciting world of Generative UI (genUI), helping to shape how we interact with technology. With a career dedicated to building robust and innovative applications, Michael brings a wealth of experience to the table. When he's not busy architecting the next big thing, you can find Michael embracing the stunning Utah mountains – whether he's shredding trails on his mountain bike or exploring new heights on a hike. A dedicated family man, he's often found playing with his five kids, and when they're all tucked in, he loves to unwind with some hands-on woodworking or tinkering in his home lab.

James is on the Workers team @Cloudflare and a contributor to Node.js core. His contributions include features such as HTTP/2, the WHATWG URL implementation, and, most recently, an implementation of the QUIC protocol.

I've been building digital products since I was 14, driven by a deep curiosity to turn ideas into tools that solve real problems. One of my first personal projects was an AI tutor I built to prepare for Greece's national exams. Using it daily helped me score in the top 0.1% nationwide without external instruction. I documented the journey in a YouTube video that's now been viewed over 70,000 times. I now work as a software engineer and DevRel at NOFire AI.

Highly specialized in FE development space in silicon valley, worked on many big tech companies including Google, Deepmind, Meta, Tiktok, Linkedin etc.

Senior Platform Engineer at SAP. Passionate about browser APIs, web standards, security, and good user experiences.

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in software development, testing infrastructure, and team leadership. Passionate about delivering high-quality products, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous growth. Skilled in engineering management, project execution, and aligning technical excellence with business goals.

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.

Ping Yu is a Staff Software Engineer at Google leading the LiteRT.js and on-device ML runtime teams. A longtime leader in the Web ML ecosystem, former lead of TensorFlow.js, and member of the W3C WebNN standard working group, Ping specializes in unlocking hardware-accelerated, client-side AI (WebGPU, WebNN) for web developers worldwide.

I'm a software engineer from Paris, based in New York. I run Cyborg and spend most of my time building things (some ship, most don't). I really enjoy working on performance optimization and applied cryptography, and sometimes I write. Outside of being an absolute nerd, I'm a big football/soccer fan (Allez les Bleus & Ici c'est Paris!) and an avid snowboarder.

My name is Mat "Wilto" Marquis and I believe in the web. I'm an independent consultant that specializes in fast, flexible, performant websites. I'm the creator of JavaScript for Everyone and a frequent guest author for Piccalil.li and CSS-Tricks. In the past I’ve been a member of the jQuery Team, editor of the HTML Specification, two-time A Book Apart author, speaker at conferences like An Event Apart, Smashing, and Beyond Tellerrand, and authored the Google Chrome team’s official guidance around writing JavaScript and using images. I’ve even been in a movie — What Comes Next is the Future (2016) — to discuss the role I played in web standards and how I hoped to change them. I’ve got an IMDB page and everything!

Ben thinks a lot about people, words, and code. As a results-oriented technical leader at Miro, he works on building real-time, collaborative text experiences for the communication needs of teams around the world.

Carlos Robles leads developer experience for Microsoft SQL at Microsoft, owning the MSSQL extension for VS Code and the GitHub Copilot integration that powers it. He has spent 16 years building software across full-stack, cloud, and data engineering roles, including time at AWS and as a Microsoft MVP. He is an international speaker, author, and mentor who codes, games, and talks about geek culture more than his family probably prefers.

Akaash Parthasarathy is a machine learning researcher and master's student in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. His work focuses on ML systems, including browser and on-device AI, model serving, distributed inference, and ML compilers. He is currently the lead developer of WebLLM and has worked on ML infrastructure at Google and NVIDIA.

Frontend Engineer at Evil Martians, a product development consultancy. My great inspiration is to shape thoughts into easy-to-use products and articles, and I love to speak publicly. I'm passionate about learning different front-end technologies, and always try to see both pros and cons of using them.

Francisca Medina (frani.be) is a front-end developer, UX strategist, and lecturer at the **Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)**, the country's leading university and a benchmark for excellence across Latin America, where she teaches **Creative Programming for Design**, **Generative Artificial Intelligence** and **Computational Thinking**. Her work lives at the intersection of logic and aesthetics: she transforms code into a tool for sensory artistic expression. She is a **Google Women Techmakers Ambassador** and has spoken at international stages including **JSConf Budapest** (Hungary), **Nerdearla** (Argentina), **CaribeConf** (Colombia), **JSConf Chile**, and other. She believes code can be beautiful, useful, and deeply human. And that JavaScript, truly understood, is the infinite brush of the algorists of the future.

Kate Astrid is a product engineer building high-performance web applications, with a strong focus on clean architecture and user experience. Her background in cartography and photography shapes her structured, visually driven approach to software.

Fullstack TS dev. I like mending legacy code. I organize a few meetup groups in Montréal, including React MTL and Software Crafters.

Daniel is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok who blends technical know-how with a genuine passion for developer experience. He loves sharing knowledge, creating helpful content, and being an active part of the developer community.

Abeetha Bala is a seasoned Product Leader, with over a decade of expertise in cloud computing, observability, and enterprise software. Over the past several years, she has played a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing Amazon CloudWatch Logs, leading multiple high-impact initiatives for AWS customers worldwide. In addition to her technical leadership, Abeetha is actively involved with TechWomen, a US Dept of State initiative that empowers emerging women leaders in STEM fields worldwide. Through this initiative, she mentors aspiring Emerging Leaders, sharing her technical expertise and experiences to foster diversity and innovation in the tech industry.

Sam Abaasi is a Staff Frontend Engineer and squad lead at MTN Irancell, where he architected a Camunda‑based workflow platform replacing a legacy Huawei system. He owns the full frontend platform – React, TypeScript, BPMN/DMN tooling. He is the author of three in‑depth technical series: “How JavaScript Works” (10 parts), “How React Works” (9 parts, source‑verified), and the definitive 23‑part guide to the bpmn‑io form‑js module system.

Frontend Engineer at Netflix, where he builds internal products that support the lifecycle of movies and TV series - from planning and production to launch and promotion. With 7 years of experience in software engineering and a background in aerospace engineering, he is passionate about developer productivity, product-minded engineering, and practical applications of GenAI.