React Advanced 2022

Matt is an independent TypeScript educator, building awesome self-paced courses at Total TypeScript.

David Khourshid (known on Twitter as David K. Piano) is a software engineer for Microsoft, a tech author, and speaker. Also a fervent open-source contributor, he is passionate about statecharts and software modeling, reactive animations, innovative user interfaces, and cutting-edge front-end technologies. When not behind a computer keyboard, he’s behind a piano keyboard or traveling.

Chris Nwamba is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS focusing on AWS Amplify. He’s also a teacher and with years of experience building products and communities.

Maggie is a designer-developer-anthropologist-hybrid at egghead.io. She spends her time designing visual metaphors for invisible programming concepts, helping developers explain their wildly abstract thoughts, and overanalysing the JavaScript community’s strange cultural beliefs. She's also a digital gardening enthusiast and a Marmite lover.

Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best selling author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast with an engineering background spanning 23 years, from design to frontend to backend to devops. Today, Tejas shares talks at large with developer communities worldwide, equipping them to do their best work.

Steve Ruiz has a background in fine art and is currently founder and CEO of tldraw. He has become known for his build-in-public style on social media, where he shares the iterative creation process that originally brought tldraw to life.

Sunil works on the Workers Developer Productivity team at Cloudflare. Previously, he's worked on the React team in Facebook, built out the Javascript stack at Myntra, and a whole list of other product and infrastructure teams in his career. He can be found on twitter as @threepointone, or annoying his neighbors in London playing his Les Paul a little too loud.

Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As an internationally acclaimed public speaker & educator, her talks and courses on functional programming, JavaScript, and philosophical & linguistic perspectives on software engineering have reached millions of learners worldwide. These days she mostly codes & teaches from her dual home bases in the San Francisco Bay & Berlin, when not traveling (in a mask) to events around the world to speak about the joy of programming and advocate for a more equitable & ethical tech industry. Nerd out with her about programming paradigms, ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, and definitely invite her to your karaoke party!

Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.

Jamon is a software developer, business owner, husband, and father of four, located near Portland, Oregon, in SW Washington state. He is one of the co-founders of Infinite Red, Inc., a fully remote React Native app development studio located in the USA and Canada.

Talented engineer and entrepreneur, creator of beloved CodeSandbox.

Shruti Kapoor is an accomplished Staff Engineer with a strong focus on front-end development. Currently employed at Slack, she brings extensive experience to the table from her time at PayPal. With a passion for DevJokes, Shruti has carved out a unique niche in the tech industry, bringing a refreshing sense of humor to her work. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Shruti is also an experienced educator, having taught courses in JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and front-end development. As an egghead instructor, she is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, helping to build the next generation of tech leaders.

Gant Laborde is an owner of Infinite Red, mentor, adjunct professor, published author, and award-winning speaker. For 20 years, he has been involved in software development and continues strong today. He is an “open sourcerer”, team leader, and aspires to one day become a mad scientist. He blogs, videos, and maintains popular repositories for the community. Follow Gant’s adventures at http://gantlaborde.com/.

Siddharth builds tools for developers. In the past, he worked on Design Systems at Auth0 and as the frontend architect at Practo. He loves talking about design, performance and open source.

Michael Chan loves the web. He's the host of React Podcast and DX Engineer at Chromatic. He’s building lunch.dev, the friendliest coding community for creative, curious, and compassionate web developers.

Open source fanatic, speaker and trainer. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a continuous quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan. Working at Facebook on dev tooling for mobile developers.

I’m Erin - raised in the Bay Area, schooled in Sonoma, Hawaii, and NYC. I’m a software engineer with a drive for JavaScript, React, explaining things simply and cats. I hold a MA in Communication from Hawaii Pacific University and previously worked at Major League Soccer on the mobile team. I’ve given talks internationally and across the US on the work I’ve been doing. I keep busy with new side projects, reading all of Reese Witherspoon’s bookclub books, re-watching Frontend Master courses, and tweeting about it all on Twitter.

I'm a nomad developer, currently living in Prague, Czech Republic. I love giving life to UI through animations. I'm a speaker, YouTuber, father of 2, React & React Native enthusiast, Open Source contributor and coffee geek. In my free time I help others to succeed.

Nik is the founder of Serenity and is passionate about cryptography, CRDTs, GraphQL and React. He co-created several popular open source projects like DraftJS Plugins and Polished and participated in Stripe’s Open Source Retreat. In his spare-time he enjoys ski touring, cycling and organising the ReactJS Vienna meetup.

Lorenzo Sciandra is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft; since 2018 he is also a maintainer of react-native, and he’s been a releaser since 0.57.4. He cares a lot about mental health and open source, and won’t stop talking about either.

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Obinna Ekwuno is a human before anything else. He mostly works on the web and loves to teach concepts in JavaScript while advocating for web accessibility. He does this through speaking, live streams, and technical articles. Currently, he works as a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare and before that he worked as a Software Engineer at Gatsby, where he worked on Gatsby Open source.

Nicola Corti is a software engineer in the React Native Core team at Meta, where he helps to build one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework. Nicola is also a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, and he is the maintainer of several open-source libraries and tools for Android developers. His involvement in the ecosystem goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees, and supporting developer communities across Europe. In his free time, he loves running! Specifically, running a podcast (The Developers' Bakery - all about Open source) and running Marathons!

I'm a developer and open source enthusiast. I like Rust, Go, TypeScript, and fast websites. I work at the Deno company, building Deno and Deno Deploy, and serving as a delegate at TC39.

Head of Technology at Callstack. Passionate about building mobile and web experiences, high quality JS tooling and Open Source. Core React Native Community & Jest contributor. Space exploration enthusiast.

Joe Hart has been a web engineer at Monzo, the BBC and LEGO. These days he's contracting his React skills out to those who need it. By night he's also a competition winning Standup Comedian, often blending technology and comedy live on stage at various pubs, theatres and tech conferences.

Lenz Weber-Tronic works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, where he is part of the team maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client. He is a maintainer of Redux Toolkit and if he’s not currently trying to summon elder gods with weird TypeScript incantations he can usually be found on StackOverflow answering questions on Apollo and Redux usage or opening random PRs on GitHub.

Software Engineer and Architect. Currently building Micro Frontends Frameworks At American Express. I enjoy exploring new technologies and sharing my experiences with others.

Ankita has over 10 years of Software development experience that started with helping small businesses develop apps. Currently she is taking a break and enjoying exploring more entrepreneurial opportunities. Previously, she is a Senior Engineering Manager at WealthSimple, leading teams and helping define the future of FinTech in Canada. She also worked as a Tech Lead, Solution Architect, and Lead developer at companies such as Loblaw Digital, Rangle.io, and IBM Canada. Ankita has architected and scaled many web and mobile apps for clients using React, GraphQL, React Native and Next.js. She loves public speaking and has spoken at several conferences worldwide, allowing her to pursue her passion for travel. Ankita is also an instructor on Udemy and ZeroToMastery and loves sharing content online.

Jessica is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, where she speaks about change and writes about the human implications of engineering decisions. She writes for a selection of tech publications and works as a co-organiser of DevOpsDays London and the regular meet-up group DevSecOps London Gathering. She also works with Coding Black Females to improve equal and equitable representation within the technology industry.

Taz is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities around the world. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.

Samuel is responsible for the developer relations at Storyblok. As the headless system's head of devrel, he spends most of his time buried in the documentation and creating various experiments and demos. He always defines himself as Creative FrontEnd Knight & DesignOps enthusiast with a passion for JAMStack and the beautiful web. As a determined community believer, he co-created multiple meetups and is always happy to help any community in need.

Alex is an experienced engineer and decision maker with over 18 years of experience in the software industry. He is currently focused on scaling large organisations by breaking up front-end monoliths. Alex is passionate about open-source software and all things Web. Staff engineer @Miro. Co-Founder of several startups.

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.

Matheus is a Sr. Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React, and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance. His areas of interest include React and its ecosystem, JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and perceived performance optimization. Aside from public speaking about these, he also volunteers at TechLabs, teaching front-end development.

Charlotte Isambert is a software mobile architect at bam.tech, a company specialized in mobile apps, with a big React Native tribe. She has been a React Native developer for 2 years.

Currently on the UI Platform team at Uber. Focused on design systems (baseweb.design), open source (multiple popular react libraries as react-movable or react-portal), CSS in JS and great user/developer experiences. Previously building product at Cloudflare.

Devlin Duldulao is a Filipino full-stack cloud engineer based in Norway. He is a Microsoft MVP, a trainer, a book author, a conference speaker, and a senior consultant at Inmeta. He loves going to universities and user groups to share his expertise.

Hung Nguyen is a full-time Open Source Contributor. He loves to help others with his software. He is obsessed with Developer Experience (DX). So he created jest-preview to help frontend engineers to write and debug Jest tests effortlessly. He is also a core member of bestofjs.org, a curated list of Javascript packages, which helps you to follow the growth of the Javascript ecosystem.

Connor works on tracing at Grafana Labs. Previously, he contributed to OpenTelemetry while at AWS.

I first developed an interest in programming in my early teens, making text-based adventure games in QBasic. After completing my degree in 2020, I stumbled out of the pandemic directly into the newly transformed fully remote world of work. In August ‘21 I accepted an offer to join the Guardian where I have been working on their identity platform migration. Outside of work I contribute to the Great British Public Toilet Map, an open source project dedicated to helping people find toilets across the UK. You can find me tweeting about life and work [@olliethinks](https://twitter.com/olliethinks).

I am a frontend engineer working. I am a JS enthusiast. I love talking about the Web and exploring new technologies. I believe knowledge grows with sharing , so I love to spread my knowledge about frontend.

Andreas is a developer, trainer and consultant for all things around the web. His favorite topics include TypeScript, React and GraphQL while still having an eye for the complete ecosystem.

French engineer, founder of LBKE. I contribute to the State of JS survey, I write Next.js courses and I give trainings at Human Coders.

Daniel is a Lead Frontend Engineer in Design Systems at Personio based in Madrid, Spain. Previously he was a core maintainer of Shopify's Hydrogen framework and had his own company yellowme.mx for seven years. Outside of work, He is into electronic music, guitars and tennis.

Hi, I'm Alessandro, a software developer from London. I build a mobile app at Formidable using React Native. I truly believe it is our responsibility to push for accessibility to be considered first-class citizens in our development flow.

Get started with AG Grid React Data Grid with a hands-on tutorial from the core team that will take you through the steps of creating your first grid, including how to configure the grid with simple properties and custom components. AG Grid community edition is completely free to use in commercial applications, so you'll learn a powerful tool that you can immediately add to your projects. You'll also discover how to load data into the grid and different ways to add custom rendering to the grid. By the end of the workshop, you will have created an AG Grid React Data Grid and customized with functional React components.

Arpit is a passionate web developer excited about building next-gen experiences on the web.

Saravana Srinivasan is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and contributing to Serverless Workflow toolings and Kie community. He is an Open source enthusiast and a trainer. He works on various Javascript tech stacks and also enjoys exploring new technologies.

Neo is a Web Software Engineer working on Design Systems at Revolut, passionate about Web development, Frontend Frameworks and Design Systems

Full Stack JS

Asaf is the front end tech lead @Evinced, with 10+ years of experience in web development, including: frontend, backend and test automation, and a special place in his heart for shiny CI pipelines. After spending a year and a half traveling with his wife and 2 young kids (now 3, Mazal Tov) in the far east, he came back to create state of the art accessibility tools for developers. In his spare time he loves reading Harry Potter with his daughter, mentoring junior devs, and making Pitas on the Saj.

Shyam Swaroop is the maintainer and core developer of an open-source project, Atri engine - a new framework built on React. He is also the Co-Founder & CTO of Atri Labs - the company behind this project. He has worked as a software engineer in both academia and industry. His most recent engagement in academia was working with DARPA under the US Department of Defense as Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University (USA). Previously, he has created software products that have yielded multi million dollars of revenue for his organization, EXL Services, a US-headquartered technology consulting firm. He studied Engineering from IIT, India and dropped out from graduate program in computer science at Columbia University, USA to work on his startup full-time.

Founder and Principal Advisor at Forthright (https://twitter.com/forthright_tech).

I am a Software Engineer at Figma, hailing from Leeds in the UK. I have always worked full stack but there is a special place in my heart for anything visual, which has lead me to my role on the Developer Tools team at Figma. What excites me about technology is being able to rapidly iterate on things and work with the smartest people around to build cool stuff! In my spare time I enjoy hanging out with my cat, oil painting and getting out into the countryside on my own two feet.

Lachlan Bradford is a Tech Lead at Tiktok and a core contributor to the Tiktok's design system TUX. He is forward thinking; having worked with VR and AR technology, and enjoys implementing a challenging design.

Logan Ralston is a Software Engineer for TikTok who works on TUX, TikTok's internal design system. Logan has always had a passion for technology and design. He also is an avid proponent of the hackathon scene and has previously served as the director of McHacks, one of Canada's largest hackathons.

Engineering Manager in UI Engineering at JP Morgan, Steve works with the core engineering teams creating open source developer tooling and an accessible React component library aimed at streamlining the life of development teams across the bank. Steve has working in JavaScript development focused roles since 2001 from ad agencies to fintech and IE6 through to evergreen Chrome, he is the author of several widely used open source libraries and describes his career as having been lucky enough to follow his hobby and his passion every day for over two decades.

Simon Waterer is a Customer Engineer at Sourcegraph. He has worked across a range of technologies including object and NoSQL databases, high performance computing and distributed platforms including Kubernetes and Mesos. Outside of technology, he likes most sports but especially cricket, rugby and F1. And loves spending time outdoors with his dog.

Darshita Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Atri Labs where she is leading the development of a new full-stack framework for web development. She has five years of experience working in Machine Learning and Data Science fields in various capacities from Graduate Research Assistant at MIT (USA) to Quant Researcher at BlackRock, a US headquartered asset management firm. She completed her undergraduate education in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, and dropped out from graduate program in management at MIT Sloan to work on her startup full-time. Her favorite past times are painting and learning art history.