Node Congress 2026

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.

I work on Agents and MCP at Cloudflare and I'm one of the maintainers of the official MCP Typescript SDK. At Cloudflare, I get to apply our primitives like Dynamic Worker Loaders and Durable Objects to agents and help some of the leaders in the space build their own. Previously a professional windsurfer - I raced for Malta at several World and European championships.

Mike is a developer, Angular Developer Expert for Google, and Developer Advocate at Prisma. Big fan of the web, Mike has been helping people for well over a decade with the simple goal: build cool things!

Lead engineer of the Cloudflare Workers developer platform, creator of Cap'n Proto and Cap'n Web.

Rafael is a Principal Open Source Engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, where he works full-time on the Node.js runtime with a focus on security and performance. His work spans runtime internals, benchmarking, and secure system design, with contributions to widely used tools in the Node.js ecosystem.

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.

Confidence Okoghenun is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare, where he bridges the gap between developers and the company’s edge platform, focusing on developer tooling, edge computing, and practical AI integrations. Confidence regularly shares his knowledge through blog posts, conference talks, and open‑source demos, especially around AI‑agent workflows and cutting edge web tech.

Marco is a Senior Security Engineer at HeroDevs. Active contributor, releaser, and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, he is a renowned international speaker and a former Microsoft MVP. Marco is actively involved in many projects within the Node.js ecosystem and also serves as a delegate in TC39.

Ruy Adorno is Vice Chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, a member of the Node.js Release Working Group, and Founder Engineer at vlt.sh. Previously at Google, GitHub, and npm, he has 20+ years building developer tooling and web platforms.

Node.js core contributor Software Engineer - Trendyol

Jamal Sinclair O’Garro is a senior software engineer at Netflix that has a keen eye for product design and is able to not only architect systems but can also handle design from a UX and "look and feel" perspective. Before Netflix, he single handedly designed and architected over 15 production desktop applications both for Citadel and Citadel Securities. Some of these systems process billions of dollars of orders and trades daily. Jamal is a published author, is heavily involved in the tech scene and runs two of New York City's largest tech meetups (~14,000 members combined). He has also had the honor of being invited to speak about technology, and diversity at the White House, United Nations, New York University, Columbia University and Harvard Business School. Jamal has also been featured or quoted in Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNN/Money and Black Enterprise and has taught web development at Columbia University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Kræn is a Developer Experience Engineer at the Voice AI startup ElevenLabs. Formerly worked at MongoDB, building Realm JS. He has build and maintained multiple React apps, including the Realm Cloud (replaced by MongoDB Atlas post acquisition) and Realm Studio (an Electron app to browse the Realm database). He lives 30 minutes west of Copenhagen, with his wife, their two 7yo twins and 3-yo - all girls.

My name is John Nguyen. I was born and raised in Berlin and I am currently working as a freelance Fullstack Engineer. I started my career in web development in 2013 with the LAMP stack and mainly used jQuery for a long time. Later, I got dragged into companies cloud migration where learned Serverless development, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methods. Fast forward to now, and I am a Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Cloud Engineering on AWS, Platform Engineering, and Fullstack Development.

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • 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.

Vinicios Neves is a senior software engineer and educator passionate about building inclusive, performant, and accessible experiences on the web. With over a decade of experience, he helps teams ship React applications that scale — in code quality and in impact. Outside of coding, he shares insights on architecture, testing, and accessibility through talks, articles, and hands-on courses. Currently based in Portugal, he believes the best code is the one everyone can use.

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.

DevRel & Node.js core collaborator

Douglas has been working at Codeminer42 since 2020, taking part in several projects since then, tailoring solutions and providing consultancy on customer's systems. Worked in systems that required queue management for data fetching and ingestion, and scheduling tasks, from financial and blockchain-related solutions to e-commerce platforms.

Weslley Araújo is a MySQL2 maintainer and the creator of Poku. He builds and maintains widely adopted supply-chain dependencies in the JavaScript open-source ecosystem. Recognized as a Microsoft MVP, he focuses on developing for developers, sharing knowledge, speaking at events, and inspiring others.