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.

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

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.