React Advanced 2026

I'm a web developer focused on pushing frontend beyond the ordinary, by creating better, more creative web experiences. I have decades of hands-on experience, a pathological curiosity about new technologies, and a constant desire to learn new things.

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide to support and advance modern web development practices.

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.

Hi! I’m a freelance web developer from France. After a career in the audio industry, I moved to the web because of how fast it allowed me to build, iterate, and ship great user experiences. React has been a major part of this success story. I’ve also been building and maintaining open-source software since 2007, from bare metal to the cloud, with libraries for React, Next.js, Fastify & Prisma. I love the open sharing of code we find useful, and the community it creates around it.

Ramona is a Developer Relations Engineer at Mittwald. With a background in software engineering and quality assurance, she bridges the gap between testers and developers, fostering trust in identity-related topics. Ramona is also a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Women Techmaker, and a Cypress Ambassador.

Muhyideen Akindele is a Senior Frontend Engineer with over seven years of experience building high-performance web and mobile applications across fintech, edtech, and gaming. He currently leads frontend architecture building production AI products like streaming interfaces, real-time LLM chat systems, and multi-step agent studios used by thousands of users daily. His work sits at the intersection of frontend engineering and AI product development, with a particular focus on how interfaces should behave when the system is still thinking. He is passionate about the craft of frontend engineering and the unique challenges that come with making complex, non-deterministic systems feel calm and trustworthy to the people using them.

Software engineer with experience in a diversity of programming languages, tool kits and environments. Founder of Nobilitix - an application design & development agency that specializes for enterprise applications with IoT and hardware elements.

Neciu Dan is the technical co-founder and tech lead of CareerOS, where he spearheads the development, maintenance, and scaling of the main application. Bringing over 12 years of engineering expertise to the table, Dan has a proven track record in the tech industry, having previously served as a Senior Product Engineer at the New York E-commerce brand, AdoreMe, and as a Senior Software Engineer at the food delivery company, Glovo.

Eric Fennis is a front-end software engineer from the Netherlands. The creator and maintainer of Lucide Icons, an open-source icon library that is used by millions of developers and designers worldwide and is among the top icon libraries in the industry. He created many packages to use Lucide in React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and more. He aims for the best developer experience and performance for using icons in applications.

Senior Web Developer & Engineering Manager based in Berlin with over 12 years of hands-on experience. I’m passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge – producing video tutorials and leading code courses at top programming schools. In my free time, I give back to the open-source community by maintaining projects like redux-offline, dracula-ui and clipboard.js,

Max is a senior engineer at Nx and Polygraph - he's been thinking about building dev tools for years - before and after AI agents. When not digging through code, he spends his time travelling, reading sci-fi and listening to music.

I'm a Founding Engineer at Tria, building a universal crypto super-app. I've spent my career on the dev-tools and component-library side of the ecosystem, co-authoring NativeBase and driving gluestack-ui and its near-zero-runtime style engine, plus a fair amount of Babel, Webpack, and code-gen AI tooling along the way. I'm drawn to the experimental edges of React. When I'm not coding I'm playing guitar, singing, gaming, or out in nature.

Jerel is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client living in beautiful Colorado, USA. He loves the art of software development and finding creative solutions to challenging problems.

Hey! My name is Lars Olson, I am a Senior Software Engineer @ TAIT, one of the leading engineering and automation companies for the live entertainment industry. In my free time, you can find me hiking, skiing, or working on my side project, My Hometown Recipes!

Based out of Toronto, Canada, Abhijeet Prasad helps maintain Braintrust's open source AI Observability SDKs. He's super passionate about web standards and helping people write faster, cleaner code. When he’s not debugging performance problems or practicing the dark arts of monkey-patching, you can find him diving into fantasy novels or playing armchair NBA team GM.

Hema Sai Charan Kothamasu is a Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building Android, Flutter, React, and developer tooling solutions. He is an active community organizer and technical speaker who regularly shares practical engineering insights through conferences, workshops, and developer meetups. His work focuses on developer experience, engineering productivity, and building tools that help developers better understand modern applications. His latest project, Inspectra, explores new approaches to runtime inspection, source navigation, and developer workflows for large frontend applications. When he's not building software, you'll usually find him mentoring developers, contributing to developer communities, or experimenting with AI-powered engineering tools.

Bart Waardenburg is a full-stack developer, front-end expert, and creator of Fallow, a Rust-native codebase intelligence tool for TypeScript and JavaScript. He speaks about frontend architecture, static analysis, testing, and AI-assisted development.

I'm a full-stack engineer from Budapest, building across React, rendering architecture, and games. Most of my work begins with a simple question and ends somewhere software feels less like a product and more like a world taking shape.

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.

With a passion for creating seamless cross-platform experiences, my journey in tech started not with programming, but as a consultant in the tech industry. The desire to build and innovate led to a shift in focus towards software development, particularly mobile app development, where the thrill of solving complex problems and crafting user-friendly applications became a calling. Co-founding Frontend Queens was a natural extension of this journey, inspired by a commitment to inclusivity in tech. This community was born from the belief that everyone, especially women, should have the opportunity to thrive in technology. By fostering a supportive environment, we aim to empower women to break barriers and pursue fulfilling careers in this ever-evolving field.

Luca Schneider is a Senior Software Engineer at Digitec Galaxus, Switzerland's largest e-commerce platform. He co-created next-yak alongside Jan Nicklas (creator of html-webpack-plugin), a compile-time CSS-in-JS library that brings the styled-components API to the build-time era. His rabbit hole of choice is frontend infrastructure (compilers, bundlers and tools that shape how developers write code) and outside of work he’s learning to throw pottery.

Hi, I'm Yashpreet Bathla, a Senior UX Engineer at ClickHouse and a React enthusiast passionate about building scalable, high-performance web applications. 🎤 React Nexus 2024 Speaker: https://youtu.be/G2ga9h5U4h8?t=20479 Over the years, I've worked at Microsoft, Amazon, Tessell, and now ClickHouse, building design systems, developer platforms, and large-scale frontend applications. My work spans React, TypeScript, Material UI, Fluent UI, Axios, OpenAPI, and frontend architecture, with a strong focus on performance, developer experience, and UI engineering. I'm also the creator of UI Sheet (https://uisheet.com), a platform that helps developers prepare for frontend interviews with curated React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and system design resources. I enjoy sharing what I learn through conference talks, open-source contributions, and technical content to help developers build better software.

I found my way into software engineering through curiosity about the products people actually use every day, and that curiosity hasn't stopped. After helping build Finnesser, a fintech startup where I developed core financial features using React, Next.js, and backend APIs, I deepened my focus on frontend systems that scale. Today I specialise in React, Next.js, and React Native, using TypeScript and AWS to build maintainable, production-grade applications. I'm particularly drawn to the intersection of AI and data visualisation, building tools that help users make smarter decisions without overwhelming them. I've spoken at internal engineering sessions and local meetups, and I'm now bringing those conversations to larger stages. My talks are practical and story-driven: I start from real problems, show the messy middle, and leave audiences with patterns they can use the next day.

Gil is a Performance Architect at Wix Viewer. For the past nine years, he has been helping build the application that powers Wix websites. As part of the Viewer team, Gil works on making it easy for anyone to create their dream website and for developers to extend the functionality of their Wix websites. With over 10 years of experience in software development, Gil started his career in networking and Linux but always had a passion for web development. For the past four years, he’s been leading the Viewer performance team, working on Wix websites performance and ensuring they load as fast as possible. In his free time, Gil likes working out at the park, playing basketball, and working on his personal projects—many of them built with AI ;)

Vishnu is a builder who loves creating things that make people say, “How did I live without this?” His work spans AI engineering, on-device AI, developer tools, web performance, data platforms, and consumer products used by millions. Over the years, he has built across the stack, from scalable backend systems and modern web applications to AI-powered experiences that bring advanced technology closer to everyday users. Equal parts engineer and product thinker, he is passionate about turning messy, complex challenges into simple experiences that just work. He enjoys sharing stories, lessons, and occasional scars collected while building products in the real world through conferences, communities, and meetups.

Lawyer turned developer, splitting my time between developing, writing, and foraging mushrooms

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

Hi, I’m Simon, a developer from Kaiserslautern, Germany. I work at DeepL on breaking down language barriers. Accessibility is a particular interest of mine, because we should bring everyone along in that process. I like hiking in the beautiful Pfälzerwald and, these days, also enjoy playing the flute, editing the magazine of a historical board game society, and strolling across Tamriel as my Khajiit.

In the 20 years since studying in my homeland of Canada, I've held a variety of professional roles, starting out in traditional print, typography and information design, to site resiliency engineering, to open-source React framework development, and I'm currently interested in design system operations. I value creativity and autonomy in both life and work, and thrive when I am invested in the whole idea rather than any single facet. When not at my computer I can be found running around Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, at the kino or hanging out with my partner Fiona and our cat Otto.

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.

Ryan has been building for the web for 25 years. He created rari, a React Server Components framework running on a Rust runtime that delivers 46.5x higher throughput and 9.1x faster response times than Next.js. He believes performance shouldn't be an afterthought and that the web deserves frameworks that are both fast and beautiful to work with.

Aymeric is a Lead AI Engineer, startup founder, and Co-Founder of HiveBots, specialising in autonomous AI workforces for enterprise. With more than eight years of hands-on AI experience, he has built and deployed production AI systems across startups, industrial environments, and global enterprises. At ANCA, Aymeric led the rollout of the company’s enterprise AI assistant to more than 1,000 users before deploying autonomous AI agents directly into live operations. Known for his practical, no-hype approach, he focuses on building scalable human-AI operating models that deliver real-world outcomes.

Shubham is a Senior Tech Lead at Meta specializing in frontend architecture, web performance, reliability, developer infrastructure, and AI-assisted engineering. At Meta, he works on Ads Manager, one of the world’s largest React applications, improving its architecture, observability, browser stability, and user experience at scale. Previously, Shubham led large-scale frontend architecture initiatives at Groupon, modernizing complex consumer applications across web and mobile. He is passionate about making the world a better place through technology, championing engineering excellence, and building systems that are faster, more reliable, and easier to use.

Senior Software Engineer at Okta/Auth0, working across distributed backends and frontend architecture. I focus on building open-source systems that prioritize logic-density and architectural resilience. When am not orchestrating state transitions, Im simplifying how we ship complex patterns in modern software.

I am a software engineer with 8+ years of industry experience and currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University of Hull. My work sits at the intersection of frontend engineering, AI, computer vision, and high-performance browser applications. Over the past several months, I have been designing and building a browser-native AI video processing runtime that explores how modern web technologies including React, Web Workers, WebCodecs, OffscreenCanvas, and browser-compatible AI models can be combined to process long-form videos entirely on the client.

My name is Dan Erez and I'm a seasoned architect and tech lead. I've worked in enterprises and startups (one acquired by VMWare) and lately been working on AI based development and SDLC innovations. I also write technical blog posts (dan.erez@medium), speak at conferences around the world and am an avid homebrewer (not necessarily in that order).

I'm a senior frontend engineer at monday.com with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications and platform-level frontend systems. My work focuses on design systems, accessibility, and developer experience. Recently, I’ve been applying AI to frontend workflows by building design-system MCPs and agent-driven systems that support consistent, production-ready UI implementation.

I have over six years of experience in designing and developing dynamic websites with interactive features that drive business growth and improve user experience. I use React.js with Next.js in frontend development, creating static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR) pages, and refactoring projects from Angular.js to React.js. I also use Redux for state management, Cypress for end-to-end, integration, and component testing, and Tailwind.css and Material-UI for building custom themes. I am passionate about web performance and SEO optimization, and I use Webpack, Gulp, Babel, and Eslint to implement best practices and solutions. I also work with API-centric design approach, use CSS3 and HTML5 for designing websites, and use JavaScript ES6+ features to develop the entire website. I have experience in checking pull requests, implementing Scrum strategies, and collaborating with other frontend teams.

Andrey Goryainov is the Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup, specializing in knowledge-graph-driven memory pipelines and multi-agent infrastructure. Previously, he designed deep research automation systems alongside former DeepMind and Meta scientists at Isara Labs, and served as the youngest-ever AI/ML engineer within Revolut's CEO Office. His work focuses on transforming LLMs from static artifacts into stateful, securely governed enterprise assets.

Alem Tuzlak is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Founder of Code Forge. He builds open-source tooling and products in the TanStack ecosystem and React Router/Remix, and is known for creating developer-focused libraries and devtools that help teams build, debug, and ship faster. He is best known for his work on TanStack AI & TanStack Devtools. Alongside his engineering work, Alem teaches and shares practical insights through workshops, writing, YouTube and community work.

Jonas spent years supporting startups as a React and Next.js freelancer. Now, he leverages his expertise as a Developer Success Engineer at Vercel to help customers succeed. When he's not programming, Jonas enjoys preparing the perfect espresso.

Nonso is a developer, writer, and tinkerer that enjoys pushing the boundaries of web development. He has a passion for creating software that empowers others to bring their ideas to life. Currently, he is a senior software developer at Konrad Group, where he actively builds solutions for various clients in the digital space. When he's not at his desk developing, you can find him rocking climbing, jumping out of airplanes, and seeing what new photography gear he can get his hands on!

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js. I specialize in frontend architecture, shared component systems, and performance optimization across large-scale enterprise platforms. Currently at EPAM Systems, I work on distributed systems powering multiple production applications. I’m passionate about building maintainable systems, mentoring engineers, and exploring the intersection of AI and modern web development.